Western Forest Products Inc. sold the rights to harvest timber on public land on southern Vancouver Island to a company and a first nation for $2.7 million. Read more…

A 94-year-old surveying error in the Squamish area means that a dozen home owners are living on Squamish First Nation land. Read more…

The Liberals, New Democrats and Bloc Québécois joined to pass a bill supporting a ban on tanker traffic on Canada's Pacific coast.

The three parties defeated Prime Minister Stephen Harper's minority Conservative government on the question with a 143 to 138 vote in the House of Commons. Read more…

Sixty-one First Nations groups across the B.C. interior have officially declared their opposition to Enbridge’s west coast pipeline plans.

“This is yet another legal and political nail in the coffin of this project,” Chief Jackie Thomas of the Saik’uz First Nation told a Vancouver press conference Thursday. “Our nations stand united as never before.” Read more…

A delegation of B.C. First Nations, commercial fishers and environmental NGOs are in Ottawa today to argue their case for a ban on tanker traffic off the B.C. coast. Read more…

The RCMP says it has not yet been asked to investigate a day of wild trading in Taseko Mines stock that provoked suspicions insider information was leaked weeks before Ottawa rejected a proposed B.C. gold mine. Read more…

Members of the Ktunaxa Nation visited the British Columbia legislature to make a declaration creating a refuge area in the Jumbo creek valley that would preclude a controversial proposal for a ski resort.

“The Qat'muk is the home of the Grizzly Bear Spirit and is the unique and proper place to celebrate and honour this spirit,” said the declaration Ktunaxa Nation Council Chair Kathryn Teneese delivered Nov. 15. “To fully protect the most sacred core of the Qat'muk area, a refuge area consisting of the upper part of the Jumbo valley is hereby established.” Read more…

The province’s Representative for Children and Youth repeated her call for a national children’s commissioner to advocate on the behalf of at-risk Canadian children, Aboriginal children in particular, yesterday when she gave the Dr. Richard Splane Lecture in Social Policy at the University of British Columbia’s Vancouver campus. Read more…

It remains to be seen whether last week's restructuring of the British Columbia ministries responsible for natural resources in the province is legal.

That's the assessment of New Democratic Party critic for the Attorney General, Leonard Krog. Read more…

A lawyer who has worked on the Prosperity Mine file with the Tsilqhot'in National Government welcomed today's federal cabinet decision that rejected the mine and prevented the destruction of Teztan Biny, or Fish Lake, in central British Columbia. Read more…

The federal government has given the thumbs down to the proposed Prosperity Gold and Copper Mine in British Columbia's central Interior. Read more…

The Globe and Mail is considering changes to its online polls after people noticed strange voting patterns in a poll on the Prosperity Mine proposal that would destroy Fish Lake.

While communities editor Jennifer MacMillan stops short of saying the 'yes' side may have cheated in the poll, she acknowledges in a blog post that the Globe and Mail's online voting system can be easily manipulated. Read more…

A UBC professor is making a case at the Cohen Commission for better recognition of traditional knowledge when it comes to salmon management in Canada. Read more…

A Globe and Mail editor responded to questions about an online poll being manipulated by saying the national newspaper never claimed the results were scientific. Read more…

Supporters of the Tsilhqot'in National Government say their opponents hijacked an online Globe and Mail poll last week about a mine proposal near Williams Lake.

“It appears someone hacked the system to dump thousands of votes in at a time,” wrote Susan Smitten a filmmaker and executive director of the group Respecting Aboriginal Values and Environmental Needs in an email to supporters. Read more…

Greeted by Squamish Chief Bill Williams, 100 supporters and heavy rains, Alexandra Morton and 80 others beached their canoes at Vanier Park this morning after four days of paddling down the Fraser River.

The biologist and activist left Hope, B.C., four days ago to raise awareness about salmon farming and the Cohen Commission of Inquiry into the Decline of Sockeye Salmon, which begins today. Read more…

If British Columbia and Canada were ever to harmonize their environmental assessment processes, as Premier Gordon Campbell has proposed, it had better be with the more rigorous federal system.

So says Marilyn Baptiste, chief of the Xeni Gwet'in, part of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation. Read more…

British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell is insulting First Nations when he says his support for an environmentally destructive mining project is in their best interest, says a chief opposed to the project.

“We're the ones that will make that decision for ourselves,” said Chief Joe Alphonse, tribal chairman for the Tsilhqot'in National Government. “We don't need another race of people coming in and telling us what's good for us." Read more…

An oil spill on B.C.’s north coast could cost the province 56,000 jobs, Coastal First Nations executive director Art Sterritt said Tuesday.

It’s further incentive, he argued, to quash a proposal by Calgary-based Enbridge to put hundreds of supertankers in the region each year. Read more…

This summer's Fraser sockeye run could be "the largest return since 1913," according to the Fraser River Panel. Read more…