Caribou from the Klinse-Za herd in northeastern BC graze in this handout photo. Line Giguere, Wildlife Infometrics.Climbing caribou numbers in northeastern British Columbia prove that collaborations between Indigenous and colonial governments can reverse decades-long declines, but focus needs to shift to culturally meaningful recovery targets, a consortium of researchers and community members say in a new paper published this week in Science.
UBC Okanagan’s Dr. Clayton Lamb and West Moberly First Nation Chief Roland Willson co-lead the paper, Braiding Indigenous Rights and Endangered Species Lawalongside nine others for the influential journal.
“Abundance matters. There are many cases where endangered…
The Higgs government is compromising on its update to the province’s Official Languages Act in the hopes of winning unanimous support for the legislation.
Premier Blaine Higgs is backing away from the elimination of a mandatory 10-year review of the act contained in the statute.
He told the legislature the government will introduce its own amendments on “establishing a time frame, or periodic review” of the law.
“We believe the amendments will be in the spirit of continuous improvement of the act,” he said.
The original Official Languages Act was adopted unanimously in 1969 and the new version of the…
Helena, Mont. –
Five TikTok content creators have filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Montana’s first-in-the-nation ban on the video sharing app, arguing the law is an unconstitutional violation of free speech rights.
The Montana residents also argued in the complaint, filed in federal court late Wednesday without public notice, that the state doesn’t have any authority over matters of national security. Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte signed the bill into law Wednesday and said it would protect Montana residents’ private data and personal information from being harvested by the Chinese government.
The ban is scheduled to take effect on Jan.…
More than a dozen parents and students alleging sexual violence at some Quebec high schools came together Friday to call for a law to prevent and fight the issue in secondary schools.
At a news conference Friday in Montreal, several young women and parents — some holding signs reading “No means no” and “#sexualassault awareness” — took turns speaking about their experiences, denouncing the way their school administration and boards handled allegations of sexual assault.
They, along with several politicians present, implored Education Minister Bernard Drainville to do more to clamp down on the problem.
“It’s been a while that…
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Amidst a global recognition around the unregulated sale of sodium nitrite online for the purpose of suicide, Peel Region is reporting a 10 per cent increase in calls “involving either attempted suicide or suicide” in 2023 compared to the same period in 2022.
The police response to those calls in some jurisdictions, sources allege, has been intense.
The uptick…
EATON COUNTY, Mich. (WILX) – New gun reform laws in Michigan are creating controversy in some communities.
The sheriff’s office in Eaton County is being asked to decide between enforcing new state laws or enforcing new county resolutions.
The Eaton County Board of Commissioners passed a resolution to make the county a “constitutional county.”
The Livingston County Sheriff and Board of Commissioners previously said they won’t enforce the red flag law, and the Eaton County Board of Commissioners recently passed a similar resolution.
“Because mainly, I believe in the second amendment of the constitution, that allows us to take and…
Jackson, the court’s first Black female justice, is coming to the end of her first term on the court. The justices are done hearing arguments for the term and are expected to issue all their remaining opinions by the end of June before going on summer break. Major decisions on affirmative action and President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan have yet to be announced.
In her address, Jackson described “Survivor,” in which contestants are deposited in a remote tropical location and undertake challenges in the hopes of ultimately winning $1 million, as “great fun to watch.” But she also…
With Quebec’s new law to protect the French language poised to come into effect June 1, the government has sent provincial agencies a list of criteria clients must meet in order to be served in a language other than French.
CBC News has obtained the instructions the ministry responsible for the French language has given to those agencies and institutions on how to apply the law, known as Bill 96.
The law’s wide scope limits the use of English in the courts and by civil servants, and imposes stricter language requirements on small businesses, municipalities and CEGEPs.
Provincial civil servants…