Podcasts about canada's first nations

Many of those caught up in Canada's forest fires are Indigenous Peoples, forced to evacuate, or living with the effects of poor air quality and smoke.

How are Canada's First Nations Reclaiming Restorative Justice? We Can Support This Movement on The Peace Alliance Monthly Call! Today - Tuesday, March 10th, 2020 Leslie de Muelles, our special guest, is an attorney consulting with Canadian tribal governments, and negotiating with the Canadian national government, to bring about the kind of systemic changes we have been dreaming about. More traditional, community-based forms of conflict resolution, prevention, and transformation are both on the horizon and under way, with thanks to her contributions!!

The Gunn Show with Sheila Gunn Reid (February 13, 2019) - Did you know that Oil & Gas and Mining are the largest employers of First Nations people in the country? These high paying jobs are giving Canada's indigenous peoples an opportunity to pull themselves, and their communities, out of the generational poverty that has plagued so many of them. There’s also a burgeoning business class amongst Canada's First Nations, particularly in Western Canada — especially in places like Fort McMurray thanks in no small part to oil and gas development and partnerships with major oil companies. But you wouldn't know that if you got all your news from the mainstream media. These indigenous success stories are seldom told. Instead, the mainstream media favours the handful of radicals and kooks, like those at Camp Cloud and at the Wetsuwetsin blockade, who inhibit prosperity not only for indigenous communities but for the whole country. Over the weekend, a pro-oil and gas rally and truck convoy in Lac La Biche, Alberta was led by Aboriginal groups. The media is reporting this event as the first of it’s kind, but that’s because the media has been asleep at the wheel for a long time. Aboriginal people have been speaking up for years about what resource development means to their communities. But the media have given their coverage to the cranks and whackos. For the better part of a decade, Metis pro-oil activist, Robbie Picard, of Oil Sands Strong, has been spreading the good news of the oilsands to anyone who will listen. Tonight Robbie joins me to talk about the truck convoy to Ottawa and what he has planned next to support the industry.

Ep 209 Joe Dion Can First Nations Save Canada’s Resource Industries?   The Kinder Morgan pipeline, like 263 court decisions before it, went in favour of the First Nations that opposed the project. One court decision after another is shaping the way Canada can and does develop its resources. The failure of governments and corporations to embrace First Nations as full partners is putting the brakes on development and it is impacting Canada’s reputation as an investment environment.   Joe Dion, the CEO of the Frog Lake First Nation Energy Resource Corporation has a plan – a plan he shared with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a First Nations Energy Strategy framed as a treaty between the Government of Canada and indigenous peoples. A treaty that will reopen the door to resource development.   To do so, he says it’s time to create ownership opportunities that provide First Nations access to economic opportunities that will create ownership, employment, funds for education and clean water, and will combat poverty.   We invited Joe Dion, the CEO of the Frog Lake First Nation Energy Corporation, to join us for a Conversation That Matters about his plan to unlocking the log jam of court cases and open a path to reconciliation.   Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Dialogue presents Conversations That Matter. Join veteran Broadcaster Stuart McNish each week for an important and engaging Conversation about the issues shaping our future.   Please become a Patreon subscriber and support the production of this program, with a $1 pledge https://goo.gl/ypXyDs

This week's episode only features some of the brilliant indigenous artists of Canada's First Nations. (And yes I know that Yellowknife is in the Northwest Territories, OOPS!) Tiny House Warriors Vol. 1 compilation: 40+ artists have donated their music to this album, to assist the Tiny House Warriors to complete the 10 tiny mobile homes that will protect traditional unceded Secwepemc territory from the Kinder Morgan Pipeline ExpansionAakuluk Music: The Jerry Cans & Nunuvut's ONLY label & home to all indigenous artists including The Jerry Cans, Northern Haze, The Trade-Offs, & RiitReclaimed: A weekly show on CBC all about Canada's Indigenous music scene. You can listen to all episodes here. (browser only) The playlist can be found here: https://goo.gl/KpkjH1

Residents of Canada's First Nations should begin to see noticeable improvements in the quality of their drinking water sooner rather than later. While the condition of water and sewage treatment systems on many reserves is a serious concern, significant resources have recently been invested in First Nations water systems. Since 2006, nearly $3 billion has been invested to support First Nations communities in managing their water and waste infrastructure, and some progress has already been made. . Between 2011 and 2013, the number of First Nations with water systems that are considered high-risk with major deficiencies has been reduced from 27% to 19%. The amount of water systems ranked as medium-risk level is now 43%, while the amount of systems that are low-risk is 38%. It's a significant improvement, but more action must still be taken. Research suggests that water quality problems affect a large number of rural communities in Canada, and the problems are by no means limited to First Nations. The most common culprits are the quality of groundwater and sources of contamination. If Aboriginal Affairs sticks to its current investment strategy, hopefully substandard water and waste infrastructure on First Nations may soon be a thing of the past. I'm Roger Currie. Join us again next week for more thoughts on the Frontier. For more on Aboriginal policy, visit our website www.fcpp.org.

It was three years ago that Stephen Harper's Conservative government said it planned to introduce the First Nations Property Ownership Act, which would expand property rights for Canada's Aboriginal people, but we still haven't seen the legislation. Such an Act would create a voluntary system of transferring title of reserve land from the Crown to an individual First Nation. The First Nation could then choose to divide up the land and give individual title to band members living on the reserve. Giving such property rights to Aboriginal people would allow them greater opportunity to improve their economies and give families better living conditions on First Nations. Right now First Nations are prevented from fully participating in the economy by review processes and legal restrictions because their land is held in trust by the Crown. The United States provides evidence of a more effective system. Native American land that has been privatized has a stronger economic base than the land that's still held in trust. Canada's First Nations have a good track record when it comes to embracing voluntary initiatives, and Ottawa's recent bad experience in trying to reform Aboriginal education should persuade the government to change its approach and focus now on property rights. I'm Roger Currie. Join us again next week for more thoughts on the Frontier. For more on Aboriginal policy, visit our website www.fcpp.org.

Libby Purves meets former soldier-turned-writer Andy McNab; Cheryl Knight, who is in charge of shoes at the Royal Opera House; author Joseph Boyden and producer John Lloyd. Andy McNab is a former SAS soldier-turned-writer. He was a foundling who joined the infantry with the Royal Green Jackets, progressing to the SAS. In the Gulf War he commanded the Bravo Two Zero patrol and later wrote a book about his experiences. He has just spent the last year as the Reading Agency's literacy ambassador for the 6 Book Challenge visiting prisons and factories to encourage young people to read. Cheryl Knight is opera footwear supervisor at the Royal Opera House and in her spare time performs as Joyce Grenfell in her one-woman show, Turn Back the Clock. The show is Cheryl's tribute to the writer and performer who died in 1979 and is remembered for her witty monologues - including her popular sketch as a harassed nursery school teacher. Cheryl is currently assembling the shoe collection for two Royal Opera House productions - Parsifal and Carmen. Turn Back the Clock is at Waterloo East Theatre. Joseph Boyden is a prize-winning Canadian author whose new book, the Orenda, draws on his own background. He is a descendant of Canada's First Nations and was educated by Jesuits. The Orenda is set in the wilds of 17th century North America when Europeans were colonising the region and the First Nation tribes fought among themselves and suffered under the invaders. The Orenda is published by Oneworld. Producer and writer John Lloyd is best known for his work on comedy programmes including Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and QI. He is currently the Radio 4 presenter of the Museum of Curiosity, a spin-off from QI. His new book Afterliff - the New Dictionary of Things There Should Be Words For, written with Jon Canter, is published by Faber and Faber. Producer: Paula McGinley.

Canada's First Nations communities are in crisis. Addiction to prescription pain-killers is rife, and it's devastating the fragile communities of northern Ontario. OxyContin - an opioid drug capable of inducing a high like heroin - is widely abused in Canada. But on isolated reserves, people talk of an epidemic. For Crossing Continents, Linda Pressly travels to Fort Hope - Eabametoong First Nation - to investigate the impact of drug use. Fort Hope is accessible only by air, apart from a six week window in winter when you can drive across the frozen lakes on ice roads. It has a population of just 1200 people, but it's estimated up to 80% of the working-age population are abusing OxyContin. The beauty of Fort Hope in deepest winter with its snow-covered streets conceals the fall-out from endemic drug use. This community has experienced a crime wave out of proportion to its size. Murder, theft and arson propelled the Chief to declare a 'state of emergency'. Even with police help it's hard to stop the pills getting onto the reserve. And the mark-up for the pushers - one 80mg tablet of OxyContin sells for up to $600 - means the addicts of Fort Hope are a lucrative market. There's a glimmer of optimism. Doris Slipperjack, a 23 year old mother of three, is fighting back. She's determined to beat her addiction. She's become an inspiration to many First Nations people. But the road ahead is tough. The aboriginal people of Canada have a troubled history of addiction. Alcohol, gasoline and glue sniffing, drugs - this is a community that has experienced it all. But people will tell you that OxyContin is the worst, because it is so highly addictive. Who knows if people like Dave Waswa - a talented artist, will ever be able to kick the habit.