Chief Ronald Kreutzer of the Fort McMurray First Nation filed a $16 million class action lawsuit against an Alberta coal company after it leaked 670 million litres of wastewater into the Athabasca River.
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The North Slave Métis Alliance (NSMA) says it has begun “a new relationship” with the government of the Northwest Territories following the settlement of a longstanding court battle over their right to hunt caribou.
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Legal actions by Aboriginal governments in the Northwest Territories are proving successful in stalling controversial changes to the territory’s regulatory regime, which would eliminate the regional land and water boards established through the land claims.
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The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation headed to Vancouver last week to defend its appeal of Shell’s federally approved Jackpine oilsands mine expansion in Federal Court.
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Ten years ago on Feb. 4, Dr. Richard Bargen’s world came crashing down around him. The physician, now 68, was working for public health in Yellowknife when he was called into the department head’s office and accused of being a “certified pedophile” and “known child pornographer” in the United States.
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Ernest Abel can’t remember if his mother Rose ever told him the name of his older brother, the one who died just before he was born, a victim of arsenic pollution from Giant Mine.
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