Advocates along Highway of Tears say ‘system is designed to fail’, speak out over funding of national MMIWG2S organizations

‘Our women are still going missing, and there's still zero solved murders for any of the victims up here on the Highway of Tears,’ says Gladys Radek

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Restoring the land after wildfires: What I learned during a field visit to the B.C. Interior

The first thing I noticed when arriving at Elephant Hill, the site of a wildfire that burned almost 192,000 hectares over 76 days in 2017, was the quiet — no rustling leaves or chirping birds. As I stepped over the uneven terrain here in B.C.’s south-central Interior, I saw fallen trees all over the ground […]

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Former social worker, parents in Splatsin First Nation in B.C. say they don’t have adequate access to justice in child welfare disputes with band

Experts agree that regional First Nations oversight bodies are needed

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