Mark Carney and Canada’s premiers are trying to push through new pipelines and mines—and they’re dangling money and ownership stakes to Indigenous communities to make the projects more attractive.
Indigenous organizer Janelle Lapointe explains that it’s just modern-day beads and trinkets to buy off resistance to destructive resource projects.
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This is brilliant and timely. What is the Breach planning for coverage of the 30th anniversary of RCAP?
This is brilliant and timely. What is the Breach planning for coverage of the 30th anniversary of RCAP?
Is there any movement in northern communities to tie mineral rights to land rights, and would that be a step in the right direction? If the partnership was equity in the form of recognition of mineral rights, it seems like indigenous communities could use that as leverage to have some choice in whether to allow projects to go forward or not?