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16 May Old treaties face new laws: Supreme Court decision to help streamline mine permits (The Province)

Posted at 19:57h in News, Posts

Canada's Supreme Court -- in a ruling that could help clarify the complex process needed to gain a mining permit -- said on Friday a proposed vanadium mine on land owned by an aboriginal group must have a full environmental assessment before development proceeds. The...

14 May First Nations talk blockades in bid to win HST exemption (Times Colonist)

Posted at 19:59h in News, Posts

First Nations in Ontario vowed Friday to continue to fight the provincial and federal governments for a complete exemption from paying the new harmonized sales tax, calling it a blatant violation of historic aboriginal treaties. Two reserves in northern Ontario are planning a railway blockade...

11 May Sovereignty was never ceded – iwi (The New Zealand Herald)

Posted at 20:01h in News, Posts

The country's largest tribe, Ngapuhi, says it never gave up sovereignty to the Crown - the idea that its chiefs surrendered their mana to Queen Victoria defies belief, the Waitangi Tribunal was told yesterday. Northern leader Erima Henare's opening remarks at the inquiry - where...