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The Politics of Process: B.C.’s Mineral Claims Regime and the Threat of an FPIC Freeze

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In this Brief, Minh Do examines the legal and political fallout of Gitxaała v. British Columbia, tracing how B.C.’s mineral claims system permitted companies to acquire rights to Indigenous lands without consultation or consent – all while the province continues to defend state control over decision-making processes and ask what remains in UNDRIP if governments alone decide, when, how, and whether it applies.

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Is Violence against Indigenous Women in “Canada’s interest”? Liquified Natural Gas in B.C., Sexual Violence & Narratives of Terra Nullius

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In this Brief, Michaela M. McGuire – Jaad Gudgihljiwah asks what is truly being done to protect women whose lives are endangered by the violence and toxic masculinity surrounding LNG development.

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Resistance & Sovereignty at Grassy Narrows First Nation

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The climate crisis grows more critical each year. Despite this, and despite the fact that Anishinaabek and Cree, among others, are on the frontlines of land and water preservation and revitalization, Canada (federal and provincial governments and industry) continues to break treaties and, in so doing, threaten the livelihoods of Indigenous people. .  Grassy Narrows,

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