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Lauren McCauley, staff writer
 "Just as Indigenous Peoples are showing unwavering strength down at Standing Rock, our peoples are not afraid and are ready to do what needs to be done to stop the pipelines and protect our water and our next generations," Grand Chief Derek Nepinak, pictured here, said after the Enbridge Line 3 expansion was announced.(Photo: Derek Nepinak/Facebook)
Buoyed by the success of Indigenous resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), a coalition of Canadian First Nation chiefs have launched legal action against the Trudeau government for its recent approval of the Enbridge Line 3 expansion. Derek Nepinak, grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, wrote on Facebook Wednesday that the...
Lauren McCauley, staff writer
Josh Tabish, campaigns director for OpenMedia, said he hopes the ruling "will inspire people across the globe and help pressure decision-makers to do the right thing and ensure all their citizens can benefit from what the Internet can offer." (Photo: Rebecca Siegel and Andrew Hart/cc/flickr)
In what is being described as a "historic" decision that will have a...
Nika Knight, staff writer
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday.
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In a "truly extraordinary" and evidently unprecedented act, a former prosecutor of Native American activist Leonard Peltier, now in his 41st year in prison for a shooting at Wounded Knee he has unceasingly denied committing, has joined myriad, decades-long demands by rights advocates to free Peltier. Supporters have long argued the trial for one of this country's key political prisoners was deeply flawed, engendering "one of the greatest injustices in the American justice system.”