Aboriginal Rights

Aboriginal Rights

Many aboriginal groups are being left out of the process and run over in the race for development of the tar sands. First Nations in Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories have claimed that traditional lands are being destroyed for tar sands exploration and extraction, and First Nations are not being included, or properly compensated for their lost and destroyed lands and water supplies.

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Aboriginal Rights Articles

The Lubicon Cree Nation Fights Genocide

Posted: March 4, 2008
February 29 2008 -- The Lubicon Nation is a small aboriginal society living in north-central...Read More

Matt Price and Allan Adam . The tar sands

Posted: February 25, 2008
Matt Price & Allan Adam, February 21, 2008, Ottawa Citizen Special -- Canadians are becoming...Read More

Aboriginal leaders allege `coverup' in Alberta tarsands project

Posted: February 19, 2008
Mike De Souza , February 16, 2008, Canwest News Service -- Federal and provincial health officials...Read More

Jailing Aboriginal Leaders to Promote Uranium Mining in Ontario

Posted: February 19, 2008
ARDOCH ALGONQUIN FIRST NATION, February 19, 2008 -- In a travesty of justice, AAFN Spokesperson...Read More

Federal Government Missing in Action on Most Destructive Project on Earth – the Tar Sands

Posted: February 15, 2008
Environmental Defence, February 15, 2008 -- First Nation communities downriver of Tar Sands bring...Read More

Enbridge makes pipeline progress

Posted: February 11, 2008
Gordon Hoekstra, February 9, 2008, Prince George Citizen -- Enbridge says it has secured...Read More

Aboriginal diversity spans language, culture

Posted: January 15, 2008
Bob Weber, January 15, 2008, Toronto Star -- Their steady murmur was the soundtrack to the recently...Read More

Oilsands whistleblower MD cleared ; Government charge of "undue alarm" from cancer warning remains

Posted: January 11, 2008
Graham Lanktree, January 15, 2008 VOLUME 5 NO 1, National Review of Medicine -- Dr John O'Connor...Read More

Canada's oil sands are fueling U.S. cars - but at what cost?

Posted: December 16, 2007
McClatchy Newspapers, December 16, 2007 -- Like a great silver snake, the Athabasca River glides...Read More

The Inuit watch and remember

Posted: December 14, 2007
Noah Richler, December 13, 2007, New Statesman -- A winter's day as Igloolik knows it. The cold is...Read More