Lack of prosecution for destruction of mythical serpentâs tail angers Kimberley traditional owners
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Traditional owners in the Kimberley are incensed the West Australian government has decided not to pursue a case against a granite mining company which allegedly damaged Aboriginal heritage sites including a landmark representing the rainbow serpent.
Kimberley Granite Holdings was accused last year of partially destroying one of three granite outcrops that represent the Jawaren, or âSerpent Dreamingâ, site about 50 kilometres north of Halls Creek on Kija country at Springvale Station.
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Tobique chief fires back at premier for saying tax deal created super wealthy reserves
Tobique First Nation Chief Ross Perley said Premier Blaine Higgs should be applauding Indigenous entrepreneurship instead of implying that a gas-tax-sharing agreement was unfair for some reserves.
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Blaine Higgs should be proud of successful First Nations and not try to oppress them, says Ross Perley
Posted: Apr 14, 2021 6:27 PM AT | Last Updated: April 14
Tobique First Nation Chief Ross Perley said Premier Blaine Higgs should be proud of successful Indigenous-owned businesses, instead of trying to hold them back.(Jacques Poitras/CBC)
A First Nations chief whose reserve has seen only a tiny fraction of the total tax-sharing revenue in the province says he doesn t feel the system is unfair to his community.
SHARES A safe supply of free drugs is given out during an event organized by Drug User Liberation Front in Vancouver on Wednesday.
Photo by Maggie MacPherson.
Illicit drugs are usually bought in the shadows, and then often consumed alone. But as Canada’s black market drug supply has become increasingly tainted with unstable mixes of fentanyl and benzodiazepines, both are increasingly deadly activities.
Activists gathered Wednesday in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood to show how bringing drug use into the light could help save lives.
The protest came as British Columbia entered its fifth year of a public health emergency because of rising deaths due to poisoned drugs. The group, the Drug User Liberation Front, staged a similar event last year.
The anniversary of the province’s overdose emergency declaration is nothing to celebrate.
Paul Willcocks is a journalist and former publisher of newspapers, and now an editor with The Tyee. SHARES Since the BC government declared a public health emergency, almost 7,000 people have died from poisoned drug supplies.
Graphic by Christopher Cheung.
Five years ago today, British Columbia declared a public health emergency in response to rising overdose deaths. It was the first time in the province’s history the power was used.
“The recent surge in overdoses is a huge concern for us,” said then-health minister Terry Lake. “We have to do what’s needed to prevent overdoses and deaths.”