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[dasmo]

Robot says:

 

Ontario – first compulsory education law in 1871, but it applied only to ages 7–12 

 

BC – compulsory schooling laws were not passed until the 1920s

 

Prairie provinces – compulsory attendance developed after 1905 

 

Maritime provinces – varied widely, with some mandatory laws not appearing until the early 20th century.

[Mike K.]

Here’s the thing: while Coastal First Nations sounds like it might be a band or group in the region, in fact, it’s a not-for-profit based in Vancouver and set up with money from left-wing American foundations.

The offices of Coastal First Nations, which is officially known as the Great Bear Initiative Society, are found at the corner of Granville and West Hastings in Vancouver. This is an organization that attempts to speak as though they represent all Indigenous voices on the British Columbia Coast when they clearly do not.

Funded by left-wing American groups
The Great Bear Initiative Society, now known as CFN, is a political advocacy group that was set up with millions of dollars from left-wing American foundations opposed to oil and gas development in Canada. These organizations, such as the Tides Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies have donated millions to stop oil and gas production and that includes here in Canada.

In 2008, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, one of the early donors to Coastal First Nations, organized a campaign against Canada’s “tar sands” to try and shut down oil production in Northern Alberta. They were key to organizing against the Northern Gateway pipeline project which also proposed to build an oil pipeline to Kitimat, B.C., just as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith wants to do today.

What we’re seeing now, is simply a continuation of the opposition that was funded by American sources in the early days and now is too often funded by the Canadian federal government.

Back in 2014, when Northern Gateway was still a going concern, Art Sterritt, then the BMW driving executive director for the Coastal First Nations, threatened the project with Indigenous resistance even though most communities along the route supported Northern Gateway.

- https://torontosun.c...iecambzz6192q7k

[dasmo]

"the Tides Foundation" seems to have their fingers in a lot of pies..... 

[Tony]

A BOT perspective

 

Coastal First Nations (CFN), formally the Coastal First Nations–Great Bear Initiative Society, is a Vancouver-based non-profit alliance of Indigenous Nations.

 

News reports and commentary note that its early conservation financing came from large U.S. philanthropic foundations, often described as “left-wing” or progressive, which supported environmental protection and Indigenous-led stewardship in British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest.

 

What Coastal First Nations Is

• Structure: A registered non-profit society headquartered in Vancouver.
• Membership: Includes Haida, Heiltsuk, Gitga’at, Kitasoo/Xai’xais, Metlakatla, Nuxalk, Wuikinuxv, and other coastal Nations.
• Mission: Protect ecosystems (Great Bear Rainforest & Sea) while building sustainable, Indigenous-led economies.
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• Critics’ View: Some commentators argue CFN represents “foreign-funded activism” against Canadian oil and gas projects, framing U.S. foundation involvement as interference in Canadian resource policy.
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• Supporters’ View: Others emphasize that this funding enabled Indigenous Nations to secure landmark conservation agreements, protect 85% of the Great Bear Rainforest, and launch over 120 Indigenous-owned businesses.
  • Reality: CFN is both an Indigenous governance alliance and a policy actor, with legitimacy rooted in Indigenous Title and Rights, not just external funding
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  • Strengths: CFN leveraged international philanthropy to secure conservation financing and Indigenous economic empowerment.     
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  • Challenges: The “foreign funding” narrative is used by critics to question its legitimacy in Canadian resource debates
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  • Impact: Regardless of funding origins, CFN has reshaped BC’s environmental policy landscape and Indigenous governance role

[dasmo]

Who is on the board?

[Victoria Watcher]

A B.C. property company says a lender has pulled out of financing a new building because of the recent Cowichan Tribes ruling that granted Aboriginal title to more than three square kilometres in Richmond.

 

Montrose Property Holdings, which develops industrial warehouses on land it owns, some of it in the Aboriginal claims area, said it had been in “advanced discussions” with the lender which it had successfully dealt with several times before, and a prospective tenant.

 

But talks ended because of “uncertainties and risk allocation issues” raised by the B.C. Supreme Court ruling in August, the company says in an application to reopen the court case that will be filed soon.

 

Montrose said it spent about $7.5 million advancing the project and expected to borrow another $35 million to complete construction.

 

The company said discussions have also ceased for the same reason with companies such as Fortis and Enbridge to develop a facility to capture landfill gas, rather than flare it. Those discussions had been underway for six years.

 

The 31-page application to reopen the case and a 1,200-page supporting affidavit, which have been sent to the parties involved in the case, were shared with Postmedia.

 

The business effects Montrose says it is experiencing from the Cowichan decision are among the first specific examples to be aired publicly.

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...ruling-11590794

[Mike K.]

There we go.

Now tell me, how can BC Assessment value those lands equal to their neighbours that are not impacted by the legal decision?

[max.bravo]

We need to stop all this reconciliation nonsense immediately. Repeal the adoption of UNDRIP.

[Mike K.]

My late friend John would talk at length about this. He warned about what was coming, and said most of BC’s residents hadn’t a clue about the NDPs quiet agenda. They know full well what they’re doing. And soon, Crown land may lose the sorts of access privileges we have grown accustomed to enjoying. At least that was John’s take, and he wasn’t one to get these issues confused or to misunderstand the bigger picture.

It has been clear for some months now that David Eby and the B.C. NDP’s approach to Indigenous reconciliation would have ruinous consequences for British Columbia’s economy. Last Friday, the situation got even worse, as a new court ruling poured more cold water on economic activity in the province and opened the door to every B.C. law being subject to interpretation through a United Nations human rights document. The implications for British Columbia could not be much more dire.

On Friday, the B.C. Court of Appeal ruled in favour of the Gitxaala and Ehattesaht First Nations that B.C.’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) — which seeks to align the laws of British Columbia with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) — did in fact affirm UNDRIP as “the interpretive lens through which B.C. laws must be viewed and the minimum standards against which they should be measured.” That is to say that all B.C. laws, even if they have not yet been changed, are immediately subject to interpretation through UNDRIP, when the NDP government had explicitly said that DRIPA was not designed to strike down existing B.C. laws.

A key paragraph in the ruling should raise the alarm for any business considering investing in British Columbia. Paragraph 181 lays out Justice Gail Dickson’s view as to where there could be future potential for dispute arising from DRIPA and the current law of British Columbia. The ruling foresees five areas that are so broad that the court is opening up any and all B.C. laws to interpretation through UNDRIP.

- https://nationalpost...gets-even-worse

We should be heading to the polls over these issues. But instead, we are realizing now that we are powerless against this government’s agenda that appears to have been held back from voters.

[dasmo]

Ironic because they didn’t consult them when they formed the country and claimed the land. Why would they consult us? It’s literally no different. Read about Manitoba and Louis Riel. They literally don’t care about anything but extracting wealth from this land. This is why this SHOULD go through the courts as that removes the law from there hands, into ours. It should be fought and resolved in the courts. Not the ballot box. Which is corrupted. NDP can simply deploy their union members Gangs of New York style. Use the Anti Hate Network to direct hate onto any candidate with a chance of defeating them.

They have a right to fight as do we. And our common enemy is not each other.

[Mike K.]

Governments should not be operating with secretive agendas. If it’s not in your platform at the time of the election, you should be required to call an election if your platform starts to deviate.

We are clearly adrift here. We have no idea what the government is up to, and the courts are deciding only on what they are being asked to decide on, which is not necessarily what you and I and the general population is asking for.

[dasmo]

. We have no idea what the government is up to, 

That's the way they like it.

[Victoria Watcher]

A Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw First Nation has banned the province’s premier and two of his ministers from their lands as “undesirables” in the wake of a recent directive from the province for police to crack down on illegal cannabis sales.

“Sipekne’katik First Nation has signed a Band Council Resolution declaring that Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston, Justice Minister and Attorney General Scott Armstrong, and Minister of L’nu (Indigenous) Affairs, Leah Martin, are banned as undesirables from ALL Sipekne’katik band lands,” said a press release from the band.

[…]

Houston told reporters Wednesday that he’s worried about “the potency of some of the products” being sold at unlicensed pot dispensaries, especially the edibles. “We just want to do what’s right to protect Nova Scotians.”


https://nationalpost...ik-first-nation

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 10 December 2025 - 10:22 AM.

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What did they think would happen when they handed them “self governance” ?

[Victoria Watcher]

What did they think would happen when they handed them “self governance” ?

 

 

Cannabis plants worth $200M seized in raids on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, police say

 

34 suspects facing charges after illegal farms shut down in September, October

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...iroty-9.6981777

 

 

 

 

A quote attributed to acting Sgt. Chris Brinklow of the Tyendinaga Police Service said the two investigations had exposed the "extent to which non-community members have exploited our land for profit."

 

In total, 19 suspects who are not members of the community face charges, Brinklow stated.

 

"These operations have enriched organized crime while offering no benefit to our people."

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 10 December 2025 - 11:21 AM.

[dasmo]

What did they think would happen when they handed them “self governance” ?

Who are they? The 1725–1779 Peace and Friendship Treaties were signed between Mi’kmaq Nation and The British Crown. Predates Canada as a country but is confirmed as valid by the constitution and the courts of this country. I suppose the Province could try conquest?

[Victoria Watcher]

Cannabis plants worth $200M seized in raids on Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, police say

 

34 suspects facing charges after illegal farms shut down in September, October

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...iroty-9.6981777

 

 

 

 

A quote attributed to acting Sgt. Chris Brinklow of the Tyendinaga Police Service said the two investigations had exposed the "extent to which non-community members have exploited our land for profit."

 

In total, 19 suspects who are not members of the community face charges, Brinklow stated.

 

"These operations have enriched organized crime while offering no benefit to our people."

 

 

[Sparky]

This is an interesting read.

 

[...In short, the Americas were settled in waves from Asia. Everyone alive today is descended from settlers. The latest “Indigenous” settlers arrived barely ahead of the first European settlers, the Vikings, who settled in Greenland and Newfoundland, and of Christopher Columbus, who started Spanish settlement in the Caribbean.

 

Singling out Europeans as “settlers” drives land acknowledgments, as well as demands for compensation and reconciliation. It plays on guilt about the actions of actors long since dead, while the concurrent demands for land, decision-making power and financial settlements occur on an open-ended basis. Internationally, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) also assumes the Indigenous vs. settler-colonial divide is valid...]

 

There is more https://aristotlefou...e-all-settlers/

[Mike K.]

There may be evidence of Chinese exploration in eastern Canada that predates the Vikings. Who knows if there were settlements and eventual migration. Science and archaeology can be extremely slow at accepting alternate theories as possible, let alone as valid and leading.

[dasmo]

I agree that the “settler” name calling and the division it creates is BS. But this article completely skips over the facts of the creation of this country. Speaking with indignation but ignorance is also BS. It doesn’t even mention the history that is only a few hundred years ago yet it makes assertions of what happened 15,000 years ago?

It claimed that some mythical Canadian force created our modern economy yet fails to mention that without the FN the fur trade, that’s the foundation of this country, wouldn’t have existed. They were integral to that business, not only providing the furs, but also distributing goods, helping the HSBC expand west as guides and translators. They helped Mackenzie map the country that way.

The issue is about agreements, contracts, that were dishonoured. Agreements between entities that still exist right now and that involved the land. Agreements that are only a few hundred years old. I wonder if the argument about the ice age, that is in this article, would help the Supreme Court’s decision? What do you think?