Shares drop on mining company behind Prosperity mine
Shares of a British Columbia mining company waiting on the federal cabinet to decide the fate of their controversial gold and copper mine plummeted Thursday.
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Hereditary chief challenges Nisga’a treaty
A historic treaty is at risk of being struck down in British Columbia.
Videos show RCMP treatment of FNs men
The B.C. Civil Liberties Association has released video of three Aboriginal men who they say were abused by RCMP officers while in police custody in Williams Lake, B.C.
Oppal says he won’t resign from inquiry
The man picked to chair a public inquiry into how police investigated the Robert Pickton case is responding to calls for his resignation.
AFN backs Pickton inquiry criticism
The Assembly of First Nations Thursday joined the chorus of criticism surrounding the launch of the British Columbia inquiry into the Robert Pickton case.
Donations swayed BC on Prosperity?
Did hundreds of thousands of dollars in donatinos help convince a provincial government to approve a gold mine?
Flooding devastates BC community
Flooding forced a dramatic helicopter evacuation this weekend of about 100 people from a remote First Nations community in British Columbia.
Prosperity faced 15 years of DFO objections
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has over the past 15 years consistently raised objections to Taskeo Mine Inc’s controversial Prosperity gold and copper project in British Columbia’s interior, documents provided to APTN National News show.
Elite BC school faces ugly racism charge
An elite British Columbia private school is facing a human rights complaint from an Indian residential school survivor who alleges the institution did little after she faced a racist barrage from a manager who said “all Indians are dirty filthy pigs.”