PHOTO: Nora Wedzin outside a community consultation in Behchoko on Sunday. Wedzin wants more time before cannabis is legalized. (CBC News/Mario De Ciccio) By Katie Toth. Reprinted from CBC News North. Originally published May 02, 2018. When Nora Wedzin hears about the federal and territorial governments’ plans to legalize cannabis, including…
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By Rachel Browne. Reprinted from VICE News. First published April 18, 2018. Black and Indigenous men and women have been overrepresented in cannabis possession arrests across Canada in the years since Justin Trudeau became Prime Minister, according to a VICE News investigation based on police data obtained through freedom of information…
By Katie Toth. Reprinted from CBC News North. Originally published April 30, 2018. Liquor stores will be the ones to sell cannabis, N.W.T. government proposal says (Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images) Some Sahtu chiefs in the Northwest Territories are disappointed the territorial government won’t let their First Nations sell cannabis when it…
When it comes to our First Nations, Justin Trudeau projects a blood-brother relationship with our country’s indigenous communities, complete with an appropriated Haida tattoo, stresses the need for reconciliation to deal with the wounds of intergenerational trauma and abuse, but falls woefully short of doing anything substantive to lessen poverty and substance addictions.
The crapshoot involving the Trudeau Liberals’ rush to legalize marijuana before the summer’s end just got its timeline potentially thrown into disarray with the Senate recommending a year’s delay evaluate the harmful effects it may have on our indigenous communities. If only they knew it’s already a fiasco. Members of…
Members of the Senate’s aboriginal affairs committee, chaired by Liberal Saskatchewan Sen. Lillian Dyck, claimed the Trudeau progressives did not consult enough with First Nations, Inuit and Metis communities, and that quick passage of pot legalization would be paving them another road to hell.
CBC journalist Jorge Barrera examines the rapidly growing indigenous cannabis industry in a segment for CBC’s National on April 20th, 2018. . http://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational
The Look North Indigenous Economy Report distributed at a conference in Thompson April 10 is a tool to demonstrate the contributions that northern Indigenous people make to the province’s economy as well as to establish a baselines for future economic comparisons.
By Christopher Curtis. Reprinted from the Montreal Gazette. First published on: April 20, 2018 | Last Updated: April 20, 2018 10:06 PM EDT There’s no turning back now. The thought looped its way around Clifton Ariwakehte Nicholas’s mind as he sorted through a pile of narcotics. It was, he thought,…
Nicholas opened the first-ever medical marijuana dispensary in the Kanesatake Mohawk territory: In Kanesatake, a marijuana dispensary sprouts on Mohawk land: Nicholas opened the first-ever medical marijuana dispensary in the Kanesatake Mohawk territory