‘We need to find a way forward together’
Our CEO, Karen Ogen-Toews, writes a guest column in The Province: We have protest groups, we have politicians, we have social-media axe-grinders and we have people with their own legal interpretation of the issues, all arguing back and forth over whether First Nations are governed by hereditary chiefs or elected councillors. But there’s usually something…
Karen Ogen-Toews on CBC, on moving on from pipeline protests
‘Whether we’re elected chiefs or hereditary chiefs, we must find ways forward for our people.’ And the people are the most important and critical factor. The CBC News story: https://bit.ly/2VYme7F And the audio recording of her interview with CBC Radio’s Stephen Quinn: https://bit.ly/2Hf4OAA
Come together for the Wet’suwet’en people
The following guest column by our Karen Ogen-Toews ran in the Prince George Citizen on 22 December 2018: It is difficult to see as a positive development this week’s announcement of a second road blockade at the Unist’ot’en camp to block the Coastal Gaslink gas pipeline, in Wet’suwet’en territories. We cannot see how setting the…
Hereditary chief in BC says community needs LNG pipeline
By Laurie Hamelin APTN News A hereditary chief in British Columbia says people standing in the way of the LNG pipeline need to step aside and let the project get up and running. “I’m just getting tired of hearing about it,” she says. “I’m just waiting for the shovel to get into the ground ,…
Gitxaala hereditary and elected chiefs work together for LNG
First Nations in BC “have an opportunity in front of us that is historic”, an opportunity that comes from the development of the LNG industry. Those words were from Chief Councillor Crystal Smith, at a Prince Rupert gathering hosted on Tuesday by the First Nations LNG Alliance. “We have the opportunity to re-instil our economy…
