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1/ As Canada grapples with its ongoing legacy of violently dispossessing Indigenous peoples of their lands & waters to make way for resource extraction, our public pension funds have a clear role to play in the process of reconciliation. #cdnpoli #UNDRIP shiftaction.ca/reportcard2022… 
2/ But only a handful of pensions have taken steps to develop an Indigenous rights & reconciliation framework in their investment processes. This is particularly troubling for pension managers that are Crown corporations in jurisdictions that have enacted #UNDRIP in law. #cdnpoli
3/ @aimcoinvests, @LaCDPQ, @cppinvestments, @HOOPPnow, OMERS and @OTPPinfo have said virtually nothing about Indigenous rights and reconciliation, despite collectively having more than $1.5 billion in assets in Canada and around the world. #onpoli #polqc #ableg
1/ NEW REPORT: Our first ever Canadian Pension Climate Report Card reveals Canada’s major pension funds are not on track to protect pensions from the worsening #climatecrisis or to align their portfolios with a safe climate future. #cdnpoli
A 🧵. Read on! shiftaction.ca/reportcard2022
A 🧵. Read on! shiftaction.ca/reportcard2022
2/ Canada's pensions must do much more to develop and implement credible Paris-aligned climate action plans, fulfill their fiduciary duty to invest in members’ best long-term interests, and protect retirement security in a world that limits global heating to 1.5°C. #cdnpoli
3/ The report finds a high level of inconsistency among pension funds with a collective >$2 trillion in AUM, with the degree of urgency, detail, transparency, and ambition varying widely for managing climate-related risks and opportunities across the sector. #climaterisk #cdnpoli
1/ Fisheries and Oceans Canada is investigating #CoastalGasLink after Wet’suwet’en chiefs captured video footage of the pipeline company violating environmental regulations on sensitive salmon-spawning rivers on their unceded territory. #cdnpoli #bcpoli theglobeandmail.com/canada/british…
2/ “It was alarming,” said Tsebasa, a Likhts’amisyu clan chief. “It’s just really hard to process. I was really quite disturbed by the complete disregard for the salmon, the water, the people — our rights as Wet’suwet’en people.” #cdnpoli #bcpoli thenarwhal.ca/bc-cgl-sedimen…
3/ The Wet’suwet’en have never given their consent to the #CoastalGasLink fracked gas pipeline. They're suing the pipeline company, RCMP & a private security firm for using intimidation, harassment, & unlawful detention to make way for construction. cbc.ca/news/indigenou…
Happy New Year! 2022 was an interesting year but I’m looking forward to what 2023 brings. I’m happy to announce that in Nov. I accepted a new position, as a Senior Policy Analyst with the @BCAFN with the lead on coordinating a response to Canada’s United Nations Declaration Act.
I remain committed to improving our cities, especially continued community organizing to ensure that our cities apply a social justice and equity lens to addressing ongoing crises, incl. the climate crisis, growing inequality, the housing crisis and the poisoned drug supply.
Ending the year, I was happy to join @NUICCIndigenous and @FirstVoiceNL on Dec 12 to discuss the enormous potential the #UNDRIP has for municipalities as well as the opportunities and pitfalls for local governments. Such a pleasure to join @KamJasTodd and Becky Sasakmoose-Kuffner
What are students saying about Ontario’s #Bill23? On Friday December 9, @westernsogs organized a large public demonstration on #WesternU’s campus as part of our effort to spread community awareness of the Bill and what it means for the housing and climate crises. A recap 🧵
If you don’t know me, I’m the 1st Sustainability Coordinator at SOGS. I advocate on behalf of grad students’ environmental rights. I’m the Chair of an advisory committee for the City of London dedicated to environmental stewardship & climate action. I’m also working on a PhD!🐦🪟
Two weeks ago, @westernsogs endorsed a letter condemning #Bill23 and educating our membership about what is at stake in Ontario’s housing and climate crises. You can read the statement in full here:
sogs.ca/bill-23
sogs.ca/bill-23
Historical case studies show us how #HumanRights have been too often conditional on a "standard of civilization." Some examples...
1. @daviderodogno1 shows this for the 19th C interventions in the Ottoman Empire (Against Massacre, 2012)
1. @daviderodogno1 shows this for the 19th C interventions in the Ottoman Empire (Against Massacre, 2012)
2. Danilyn Rutherford explores how images of #WestPapua and its people as a remnant of the “Stone Age” enabled the denial of Papuan human rights in the 1960s and since.
Meanwhile, West Papuans have asserted their own equal humanity in such campaigns as “we are not monkeys.”
Meanwhile, West Papuans have asserted their own equal humanity in such campaigns as “we are not monkeys.”
3. Colonial powers deny rights by denying that the colonized are sufficiently “advanced” - sufficiently human - to deserve equal human rights.
Yet the colonized fight back by insisting on rights. Rick Monture’s We Share Our Matters tells stories of Six Nations resistance.
Yet the colonized fight back by insisting on rights. Rick Monture’s We Share Our Matters tells stories of Six Nations resistance.
1/10 PM @JustinTrudeau & #NATO @jensstoltenberg just visited #Canada’s biggest fighter jet base, CFB Cold Lake, in #Alberta. Canadians should know that the land for this @RCAF_ARC base & air weapons range was stolen from First Nations 70 years ago. bit.ly/3CxYLCb 🧵⬇️
2/From 1952-1960 Liberal govt gave minimal compensation to Dene & Cree peoples for taking land then stopped all payments. Loss of land had devastating consequences: poverty, despair & trauma. They lost traditional hunting grounds & sacred sites that were under Treaties 6, 8 & 10.
3/For 7 decades, all year long, Canada’s #fighterjets conduct loud, low-level flights over reserves & they bomb, strafe and torpedo #ColdLake Air Weapons Range, it's boreal #forest habitat for endangered #caribou. Land contaminated w/ munitions & toxins from military. @IENearth
The Canadian government is arguing in court that UNDRIP is a "contextual" and "interpretive aid only"—and that neither it nor the new UNDRIP act can be used to strike down new federal laws that may violate them.
Story here: aptnnews.ca/national-news/… #UNDRIP #cdnpoli
Story here: aptnnews.ca/national-news/… #UNDRIP #cdnpoli
A lawyer representing band members in the case says she was “disappointed but not surprised” to see the feds' "impoverished" interpretation of the new UNDRIP law.
“People had high hopes for Bill C-15. Those who were cynical about it would say, more or less, 'I told you so'."
“People had high hopes for Bill C-15. Those who were cynical about it would say, more or less, 'I told you so'."
"The UN Declaration can serve as an interpretive aid to Canadian," says Ottawa's legal brief. "However, neither the UN Declaration nor the UN Declaration Act can displace the Constitution or clear statutory language."
Why would @Dave_Eby & @jjhorgan have their lawyer argue in Supreme Court that the #Nuchatlaht were too “small and weak” to have title over their land? Lawyer Echols had the dishonourable, sloppy, audacity to say this in front of Justice Myers and I’m still speechless. #BCpoli 🤯
Frankly, the provincial government should not have lawyer on payroll that forwards colonial, profoundly racists, inaccurate and harmful actions like this. It’s 2022 FFS. 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 #DRIPA #UNDRIP #BCpoli #Nuchatlaht
The Province, clearly embarrassed, have called a motion to amend and detract the word “weak” replacing it with “Prior to and at the date of sovereignty the Nuchatlaht were relatively small and had little capacity from stopping other indigenous groups from using the land…..” 🙄
I had another meeting about old-growth with reps from a First Nation in BC this morning. Like a lot of these conversations, it was incredible heartbreaking and frustrating.
LONG thread on the BC government's broken approach on old-growth forests.
#bcpoli #oldgrowth #UNDRIP
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LONG thread on the BC government's broken approach on old-growth forests.
#bcpoli #oldgrowth #UNDRIP
1/18
The Nation I talked to, like all in BC, have had some of the threatened old-growth in their territory recommended for deferrals (two year holds on logging) by the provincial government.
The province has asked the Nation to inform them of their intention within 30 days.
2/18
The province has asked the Nation to inform them of their intention within 30 days.
2/18
Like most of the 200+ First Nations in the province, this community is concerned about remaining old-growth and the continued logging of it.
Also like many Nations here, they're involved in logging, after 100+ years of being excluded from economic development on their land.
3/18
Also like many Nations here, they're involved in logging, after 100+ years of being excluded from economic development on their land.
3/18
While the @bcndp gov’t struggles with the severe impacts of flooding that are a result of the worsening #ClimateCrisis they are diverting critical #RCMP resources into #Wetsuweten territory again to protect the gov’ts #frackedgas pipeline 1/ #bcpoli #LNG
When @geoffmeggs delivered the news to the @bcgreencaucus that the @bcndp were going to support the #CGL #frackedgas pipeline I asked him how they would deal with the long-established blockades on #Wetsuweten territory. He said it was under control. Clearly not! 2/ #bcpoli
The chaos in Crown-Indigenous relations has been created by a @bcndp gov’t whose words and actions are not aligned. Say one thing, do another. @MurrayRankinNDP was on the #Wetsuweten file since early 2020 when he was brought in to mop up the mess gov’t created. #FAIL 3/ #bcpoli
Reeeeaaaallly long 🧵 about #oldgrowth in B.C.:
So, tomorrow marks two weeks until the one year anniversary of the release of the Old-Growth Strategic Review (OGSR) report.
You can check out the report here:
www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/far… #bcpoli #cdnpoli
So, tomorrow marks two weeks until the one year anniversary of the release of the Old-Growth Strategic Review (OGSR) report.
You can check out the report here:
www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/far… #bcpoli #cdnpoli
The report was written by the OGSR panel, comprised of two expert foresters who undertook the most extensive review of forest policy ever done in BC from the fall of 2019 to spring 2020.
The panel gave its report to the @bcndp government on April 30, 2020.
#bcpoli #oldgrowth
The panel gave its report to the @bcndp government on April 30, 2020.
#bcpoli #oldgrowth
Government sat on the report for more than four months, before publishing it Sept.11, 2020.
The report is good. Its assessment of the status quo as unsustainable and call for a paradigm shift echoed what the environmental movement has been saying for decades.
#bcpoli
The report is good. Its assessment of the status quo as unsustainable and call for a paradigm shift echoed what the environmental movement has been saying for decades.
#bcpoli
@JustinTrudeau @CanadianPM #C35 @UNHumanRights @UN_HRC @BobRae48 @UN_Enable
Trudeau is lying to UN and @CQualtro needs to be remove from her job.
This is the big new benefit he is not giving the #disabled the @CPC_HQ @ndp @erinotoole @theJagmeetSingh @ElizabethMay @Puglaas
Trudeau is lying to UN and @CQualtro needs to be remove from her job.
This is the big new benefit he is not giving the #disabled the @CPC_HQ @ndp @erinotoole @theJagmeetSingh @ElizabethMay @Puglaas
@BlocQuebecois @yfblanchet @PierrePoilievre @MichelleRempel
need to vote to not pass the #Budget2021 in the @HoCChamber @OurCommons @HoCCommittees @HoCSpeaker @SenateCA
#canpoli
@JustinTrudeau treatment of #UNCRPD and #Disabled is no different then #UNDRIP #Indigenous #abusive
need to vote to not pass the #Budget2021 in the @HoCChamber @OurCommons @HoCCommittees @HoCSpeaker @SenateCA
#canpoli
@JustinTrudeau treatment of #UNCRPD and #Disabled is no different then #UNDRIP #Indigenous #abusive
Today's @canada #Budget2021 vote is about #HumanRightsViolations and #ethics #MP #MLAs #HOC must vote against the #Budget2021 if we are okay to open up we are okay for election in the middle of Pandemic
#215children
#Homeless
#homelessness #Veterans #Seniors
#Constitution
#215children
#Homeless
#homelessness #Veterans #Seniors
#Constitution
THIS IS TODAY. 5 pm. Hear from the Chief of the First Nation fighting #SiteC in BC Supreme Court, Chief Roland Willson of West Moberly FN @dunnezaman, as well as geotechnical expert on #SiteC's unsafety & more. Please join! #bcpoli #Covid19BC #cdnpoli #theDamTruth #UNDRIP
@dunnezaman ..I'll try to live tweet parts of this webinar. If you would like to donate to West Moberly's court challenge to the #SiteC dam, the link is here. #bcpoli
Minister @BruceRalston gave @MA_BC a million dollars to produce a road map that has a copy edit at the top of page 4 - OUR DESINTATION. Given NGOs and community groups were left out of the “engagement” on this, how about we suggest a few other edits. 1/
mining.bc.ca/sites/default/…
mining.bc.ca/sites/default/…
Start of report: “More than 150 years ago, our industry helped build our province’s cities and towns.” Given how good you claim to be on Indigenous relations, did you ask some nations what they think about this statement? @tsilhqotin @Stkemlups_SSN @Sneena01 @CarrierSekani? 2/
Painting our colonialist history with nostalgia & industriousness erases the reality of the past. Up to 90% of Indigenous communities were wiped out from smallpox brought with the second wave of the Gold Rush. BC has no treaties in part b/c Trutch placed his bets on 100%... 3/
Bill C-15 (#UNDRIP) there is a huge difference between putting international law UNDER section 35 (Doctrine of discovery and canadian whiteman made law control) versus expanding section 35 (making canadian racist doctrine of discovery laws) to meet international standards.
Plus Bill C-15 says it will be under “a minister” - no specificity. Why would we agree to put the international laws into the hands of some rogue minister? Or is this a made for Perry position?
Treaty First Nations argue that our laws are international nation to nation
Treaty First Nations argue that our laws are international nation to nation
agreements. Why would we agree to put this higher level under canada’s constitution? Why?
Canada is trying to take our international arguments and put them into that section 35 box that has mind numbing tests where our people have to “PROVE” things like “we were here first.” 🤦🏽♀️
Canada is trying to take our international arguments and put them into that section 35 box that has mind numbing tests where our people have to “PROVE” things like “we were here first.” 🤦🏽♀️
We share a duty to build a fairer Canada for all, not just a few. This morning I tabled Bill C-15, regarding the implementation of #UNDRIP, a major step in the reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.
We can’t change the past, but today, we set the course toward a better future.
cpac.ca/en/direct/cpac…
cpac.ca/en/direct/cpac…
#C15 is the result of our collaboration with many Indigenous leaders. I was both moved and proud to have them by my side today. To all those who helped, thank you for your fundamental contribution.
excellent!
2/
powerful speech from @perrybellegarde, on @CBCNews. Thank you, CBC, for including sidebars with key points underpinning this momentous event - "Ottawa Introduces UNDRIP Legislation"
(previous Bill C-262 introduced in 2018, stalled in Senate)
powerful speech from @perrybellegarde, on @CBCNews. Thank you, CBC, for including sidebars with key points underpinning this momentous event - "Ottawa Introduces UNDRIP Legislation"
(previous Bill C-262 introduced in 2018, stalled in Senate)
3/
from the sidebars (h/t @CBCNews):
What is the 'UNDRIP'?
. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
. 46 articles ratified in 2007 by 144 members of UN Gen'l Assembly
. Recognizes basic human rights of Indigenous people
from the sidebars (h/t @CBCNews):
What is the 'UNDRIP'?
. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
. 46 articles ratified in 2007 by 144 members of UN Gen'l Assembly
. Recognizes basic human rights of Indigenous people
BREAKING NEWS:
Canada just tabled legislation to meet its obligations to implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. #SupportUNDRIP
My reaction in the thread below:
Canada just tabled legislation to meet its obligations to implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. #SupportUNDRIP
My reaction in the thread below:
The AFN welcomes the tabling of a bill to advance implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. First Nations across Canada will be examining this bill closely because the implementation of the Declaration is crucial to our rights. #SupportUNDRIP /2
The new implementation bill will provide a framework to ensure respect of human rights, will launch a process of review and reform of federal law, and will require reports on progress made. /3
"Indigenous peoples have suffered from historic injustices as a result of, i.a., their colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories and resources ..."
"Declaration on the Rights of #Indigenous Peoples" (#UNDRIP, 2007)
un.org/development/de… #IndigenousPeoplesDay
"Declaration on the Rights of #Indigenous Peoples" (#UNDRIP, 2007)
un.org/development/de… #IndigenousPeoplesDay
Article 1:
"Indigenous peoples have the right to full enjoyment (...) of all human rights and fundamental freedoms as recognized in the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights law."
motherjones.com/environment/20…
"Indigenous peoples have the right to full enjoyment (...) of all human rights and fundamental freedoms as recognized in the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and international human rights law."
motherjones.com/environment/20…
Article 2:
"Indigenous peoples and individuals are free and equal to all other peoples and have the right to be free from any kind of discrimination, in the exercise of their rights, in particular that based on their indigenous origin or identity."
nytimes.com/2020/08/06/wor…
"Indigenous peoples and individuals are free and equal to all other peoples and have the right to be free from any kind of discrimination, in the exercise of their rights, in particular that based on their indigenous origin or identity."
nytimes.com/2020/08/06/wor…
🔎Wet'suwet'en: A Deeper Look🔍
1) There is much more going on than we're being told. The office of Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs is a political organization and not the actual band itself.
1) There is much more going on than we're being told. The office of Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs is a political organization and not the actual band itself.
2) The office of Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs takes money from the Tides Foundation. This is well documented and admitted by both sides.
2) Tides is funded in part by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and gives money to other anti-oil initiatives. google.ca/amp/s/business…
So what's so bad about #CoastalGaslink? The project doesn't affect the United States, & its website touts lots of Indigenous Input AND even respecting #UNDRIP!
tcenergy.com/siteassets/pdf…
Clean Natural Gas!
Except ...
#WetsuwetenSolidarity
1/14
tcenergy.com/siteassets/pdf…
Clean Natural Gas!
Except ...
#WetsuwetenSolidarity
1/14
The @CoastalGasLink project is owned by @TCEnergy, which, despite ITS slick website touting Safety as their #1 Value
tcenergy.com/sustainability…
#WetsuwetenSolidarity 2/14
tcenergy.com/sustainability…
#WetsuwetenSolidarity 2/14
TCEnergy has uhm, less than perfect safety records:
in Walsh County North Dakota LAST OCTOBER 2019 over 383,000 gallons spilled
cnn.com/2019/11/20/us/…
and
esquire.com/news-politics/…
#WetsuwetenSolidarity 3/14
in Walsh County North Dakota LAST OCTOBER 2019 over 383,000 gallons spilled
cnn.com/2019/11/20/us/…
and
esquire.com/news-politics/…
#WetsuwetenSolidarity 3/14
This dam conference on hydro-impacted communities starts today! It's actually named "Ki Ta Ski Naw" or 'rise up' in Cree. For those interested in following along, I think hashtags will be #hydroimpacted #hydrojustice & I'll also try to use #SiteC #bcpoli hydroimpacted.ca/conference-age…
Looking forward to the first panel which will be moderated by BC journalist @sarahcox_bc. Opening welcome now. Starting to regain feeling in my face from the walk here, hi Winnipeg!
We're in Treaty 1 territory for the #hydroimpacted conference. Welcome by local elder Dave Scott in Cree language. Speaking now about the treaty relationship, its history, the 'doctine of discovery', Trudeau's White Paper & ongoing devolution process.. cc #SiteC #treaty8
Reading @TanyaTalaga’s Seven Fallen Feathers (re: deaths of 7 Indigenous youth in #thunderbay) & she immediately calls out #Canada for its audacity to claim having 1 of the best education systems in the world when Indigenous students face a lack of schools & quality education.
Makes me wonder whether Canadian schools and educators deserve such a title when we aren’t properly addressing issues that Indigenous children & youth are experiencing in education. #UNDRIP #unitednations #indigenousrights #indigenousstudents bbc.com/news/business-…
Who is benefiting from these rankings? Who’s hurting? How do Ind students fit in the picture of these rankings? Do certain achievements give us a pass on addressing issues in our education system? How many more Ind students need to drop out or end their lives before we wake up?
