BC Power & Energy Industry News

B.C. could outsource new LNG ferries by David P. Ball, posted on 24 Hours Vancouver BC Ferries may soon be fuelled by the province’s abundant liquefied natural gas resources. On Monday, Victoria issued a request for proposals from five shipyards to build three ferries that can operate on LNG with diesel as backup. Seaspan was…

Aboriginal News

The Fraser Institute: Media Advisory; How Much Does Government Spend on Aboriginal People in Canada? New Study Coming Tuesday, December 10, posted on MarketWired The Fraser Institute will release a new study Tuesday, December 10, spotlighting federal and provincial spending on Aboriginal people. The study, Ever-Higher: Government spending on Canada’s Aboriginals since 1947, looks at…

Aboriginal News

Written Proof Harper Doesn’t Care About Aboriginal Education by Hon. Carolyn Bennet, posted on Huffington Post Canada Last week’s sensational release of documents from the RCMP’s Information to Obtain (ITO) production order in the ongoing Senate scandal created a political firestorm. This is not surprising, given it is now abundantly clear that the RCMP believes…

Aboriginal News

Youth cool to proposed education act, by Betty Ann Adam, posted on The Star Phoenix Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Minister Bernard Valcourt confronted a skeptical reception at an Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Youth Council summit in Saskatoon. He also hinted the Federal government’s unpopular proposed education act could be shelved, depending on…

Aboriginal News

  Idle No More anniversary sees divisions emerging, By Daniel Schwartz, Posted on CBC News Idle No More, the indigenous movement that began a year ago today, says it has a database of 254,000 supporters. Some, however, are concerned about the direction its founders want to go. A Saskatoon teach-in on Nov. 10, 2012 marked the founding…

Aboriginal News

Daniels Appeal Hearing to defend Métis and non-status Indians Rights concludes in Ottawa, Posted on Turtle Island News (Ottawa) October 30, 2013 – National Chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, Betty Ann Lavallée, CD., (Ret’d), issued the following statement regarding the appeal launched by the Federal Government of Canada in the case of Daniels…