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Tag Archives: Aboriginal Canada

Making Aboriginal voices heard in Environmental Assessment: MLI paper by Bram Noble

  MLI paper explores how Environmental Assessment can become an integral part of reconciliation with Aboriginal Canadians OTTAWA, July 5, 2016 – Environmental assessment,...

 

July 5, 2016 at 9:07 am read more
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Senators hear from Ken Coates on pipelines, natural resources and Aboriginal Canada

The Senate committee on Transport and Communications is drawing on thought leadership from Macdonald-Laurier Institute Senior Fellow Ken Coates in its study on...

 

June 3, 2016 at 2:34 pm read more

Preventing new transparency laws from burning Indigenous peoples and resource developers: New MLI paper by Dwight Newman and Kaitlyn S. Harvey

Time is running short for adapting to new natural resource transparency laws before payments to Aboriginal governments are subject to disclosure a year...

 

June 2, 2016 at 9:08 am read more
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Embrace of UNDRIP can bring Aboriginal Canada and Ottawa closer together: Ken Coates and Blaine Favel for iPolitics

Ottawa’s endorsement of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) has finally opened the door to welcoming Aboriginal Canadians...

 

May 19, 2016 at 11:47 am read more

Using UNDRIP to help Aboriginal Canada will require action on key priorities: New MLI paper by Blaine Favel and Ken Coates

Blaine Favel and Ken Coates, in a newly-released Macdonald-Laurier Institute paper, examine next steps for Ottawa as it follows through on its endorsement...

 

May 19, 2016 at 8:10 am read more

MLI’s Coates and Favel call for a made-in-Canada approach to “free, prior and informed consent”

Authors of a new paper recommend collaboration with Indigenous peoples to clarify the standards for Indigenous acceptance of resource projects OTTAWA, April 28,...

 

April 28, 2016 at 10:36 am read more

“Something extraordinary is happening” with Aboriginal Canada and natural resources, Sean Speer tells Senators

Macdonald-Laurier Institute Senior Fellow Sean Speer took to Parliament Hill this week to slay some of the myths about Aboriginal Canada and the...

 

April 15, 2016 at 9:57 am read more

Less government, not more, the path to Aboriginal prosperity: Sean Speer and Ken Coates in Sun papers

Ottawa’s commitment to reconciliation with Aboriginal Canadians won’t just be measured in the dollars and cents doled out in this week’s budget, write...

 

March 22, 2016 at 11:32 am read more

Building a new Aboriginal opportunities agenda: Commentary by Ken Coates and Sean Speer

MLI Senior Fellows say the solution to fostering progress for Aboriginal Canada lies in less government – not more OTTAWA, March 16, 2016...

 

March 16, 2016 at 8:50 am read more

Sean Speer and Ken Coates available to comment on Aboriginal affairs ahead of premiers’ meetings

This week’s meeting between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and First Nations groups holds great potential for advancing the cause of Aboriginal Canadians, say...

 

March 1, 2016 at 8:40 am read more
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