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United Nations urges Canada to stop assimilatory impacts of the ‘Indian Act’
The United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples recently...
Giovanni Torre 13 May 2026
British Columbia First Nations leaders demand end to sex discrimination and violence against women
Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs Secretary-Treasurer, Chief Marilyn Slett...
Giovanni Torre 6 May 2026
'First Nations children in Canada should not have to wait for justice' - advocates
The Our Children Our Way Secretariat, British Columbia's Indigenous Child and Fa...
Giovanni Torre 27 Apr 2026
Canadian First Nations leaders fight back against attack on Indigenous rights in British Columbia

Canadian Indigenous leaders have urged legislators in British Columbia to vote down a bill which would suspended parts of the province's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Apr 20, 2026
British Columbia Court of Appeal overturns decision limiting Nuchatlaht Nation's claims on Nootka Island

The British Columbia Court of Appeal has overturned a 2024 lower-court ruling this week after finding the judge used an "arbitrary boundary" to determine a First Nation's native title over a swath of...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Apr 3, 2026
Union of BC Indian Chiefs honours their first female VP, celebrates First Nations women in leadership

In February 2026, the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs elected Chief Councillor Linda Innes, Gitxaala Nation, as Vice-President through acclamation, becoming the first female Vice-President of...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Mar 9, 2026
Turning Royalties into Sovereignty: What Canada’s First Nations can teach Australia

In a boardroom in Vancouver, a quiet financial experiment is underway that could change the way Indigenous nations participate in mining. It is called Nations Royalty, a majority Indigenous-owned publ...

Reece Harley Reece Harley Feb 23, 2026
More than 100 British Columbia First Nations leaders join growing opposition to proposed Declaration Act changes

A growing list of more than 100 First Nations leaders and organisations from across the Canadian province of British Columbia have renewed their vow to defend the Declaration on the Rights of Indigeno...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Feb 10, 2026
Indigenous leaders urge stand against Residential School denialism in Canada

Indigenous leaders have written to the University of British Columbia, taking a stand against revisionist history downplaying the suffering of children in Canada's Residential School system.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Jan 27, 2026
Indigenous Nations win 'ground-shaking' legal victory in Canadian rights case

Indigenous Nations have won a major legal victory in the Canadian province of British Columbia. On Friday, the Gitxaala and Ehattesaht Nations secured a landmark victory at the BC Court of Appeal, wit...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Dec 6, 2025
BC Indigenous leaders welcome identity reform push: 'an important step in safeguarding the future of First Nations'

First Nations leaders in the province of British Columbia have celebrated the decision by a key Canadian senate committee to eliminate the second-generation cut-off and implement a one-parent rule on...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Dec 3, 2025
British Columbia Indigenous leaders urge Province to implement CleanBC review’s climate measures

The Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs has called on the government of the western Canadian province to implement the priorities in the CleanBC review final report, released Wednesday, and "re-co...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Nov 27, 2025
British Columbia Indigenous leaders urge authorities to take action on gender-based violence and declare epidemic

The Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs marked the UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the beginning of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence wit...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Nov 26, 2025
British Columbia Indigenous leaders mark Year of Glaciers’ Preservation with call for action

The Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs has called for strengthened action to protect the Canadian province's rivers of ice from the threat of climate change.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Nov 11, 2025
Canadian First Nations leaders stand in solidarity to protect sacred waterways

First Nations leaders from across British Columbia have thrown their support behind the Okanagan Indian Band's fight to protect sacred waterways.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Nov 4, 2025
‘First Nations consent ignored’ as Canadians asked to subsidise LNG expansion

The Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs says Canadian PM Mark Carney's push to double LNG Canada as a "nation-building" project ignores the right of Indigenous peoples to free, prior and informed...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Sep 15, 2025
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