Canada’s recent embrace of Indigenous rights looks transformative on paper, but in the Alberta oil sands, a different story unfolds.

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A Cold Colonialism - Modern Exploration and the Canadian North; A Cold Colonialism reframes exploration as a modern enterprise – one through which southern Canadians and Americans sought to exert cont...

Hunters in northern Alberta are helping scientists test how industrial noise from the oilsands affects moose hunting — a food source and a connection to cultural traditions for many rural and Indigeno...

Two of Canada's richest families appear poised for a battle over one of the country's most famed documents.

Alberta’s bizarre and dangerous experiment in vaccine rationing began yesterday with the appearance of a website where Albertans can register to be considered for COVID-19 immunization sometime in the...

Find conversations about land, water, and Indigenous knowledge in the final four convos of Season Five of NiCHE Conversations with Jessica DeWitt

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Ultimately, The Fort McKay Métis Nation: A Community History makes a vital contribution to Métis historiography and to the growing body of scholarship that centers Indigenous voices in historical r…

Downstream Indigenous communities distrust tailings management due to decades of contamination, health impacts, and government-industry dismissal of their concerns.

Airdrie Mayor Peter Brown appeared in a Facebook Live broadcast on Friday afternoon, marking his first public remarks since an article by the Investigative Journalism Foundation was published on June ...

An NDP MPP says Bill 5, that will give the government the power to override environmental and municipal laws, underestimates First Nations.

History Matters

By Sean Graham This week I talk with Peter Fortna, author of The Fort McKay Métis Nation: A Community History. We talk about the origins of the Nation, which is located in northeastern Alberta, the…

Sean Graham talks with Peter Fortna, author of The Fort McKay Métis Nation: A Community History. They talk about the origins of the Nation, which is located in northeastern Alberta, the community conn...

Businessman’s dealings with the provincial health authority are subject to multiple investigations