No prosecution for mining company accused of damaging WA Aboriginal heritage site
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Kimberley Granite Holdings won t be allowed to continue work at the site.
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The West Australian government has confirmed that a mining company accused of unlawfully damaging an Aboriginal heritage site in the Kimberley will not be prosecuted.
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Kimberley Granite Holdings was accused of destroying an Aboriginal heritage site without approval in 2019
After nearly three years the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage confirms its probe is over
The company won t face prosecution but the area is now legally protected, preventing further work
Posted: Apr 08, 2021 9:27 AM AT | Last Updated: April 8
Jake Stewart announced Thursday he s running for the federal Conservative Party nomination for Miramichi-Grand Lake.(Jacques Poitras/CBC) comments
Progressive Conservative MLA Jake Stewart says he wants to make the leap to federal politics.
Stewart, a former Aboriginal Affairs minister in the Higgs government and a four-term MLA representing Southwest Miramichi-Bay du Vin, announced Thursday he s running for the federal Conservative Party nomination for Miramichi-Grand Lake. As a provincial MLA, I ve got 11 years of experience, I ve got the support and encouragement from my constituents, and I ve seen myself personally how left out we ve become at the federal level, he said in an interview.
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The man who shifted stones that were placed in the shape of an eel by Aboriginal people more than 1,500 years ago in western Victoria has apologised for his actions.
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Adrian says he hoped the stones can be restored
Traditional owner John Clarke says he has had horrible conversations with elders as they processed the damage
The head of a national native title body says the incident demonstrates the need for stronger heritage site protections
Lake Bolac resident Adrian, whose family owns one of the properties the stone arrangement sits on, said he didn t realise the stones he moved with a loader over the Easter weekend were culturally significant.
First Nations face an uphill battle getting revenues from Hydro-Québec By Kevin Dougherty. Published on Apr 6, 2021 5:31pm Billy Diamond, then-grand chief of the Cree (left), and then-Quebec Justice minister Gérard D. Levesque, sign the James Bay agreement on Nov. 11, 1975. (Photo supplied by the Cree Nation of Waskaganish)
A coalition of First Nations from Quebec, Labrador, and Maine is opposing a proposed transmission line to carry Hydro-Québec electricity to New England, on the grounds that 36 per cent of Hydro-Québec’s energy is “stolen” from the First Nations on whose territory the electricity is produced, and that the transmission line will have an adverse environmental impact in Maine.
While the new law was supposed to be reviewed five years after it was put in place, that still has not happened.
And the Trudeau Liberals, despite promising to repeal the law during the 2015 election campaign, have left the Harper-era law in place.
The constitutional challenge announced this week calls for the court to strike down sex work law prohibitions against impeding traffic, public communication, purchasing, materially benefiting, recruiting and advertising sexual services.
The alliance is arguing those Criminal Code prohibitions “violate sex workers’ constitutional rights to security, autonomy, life, liberty, free expression, free association and equality.”
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted how sex workers are shut out of many parts of society. Sex workers have seen their incomes drop but haven’t been able to collect income replacement benefits like the Canada Emergency Response Benefit because their work is illegal.