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Readers who have followed my tracking of the native legal winning streak will be familiar with my preferred wording – ‘Land Rights’ – being the catch phrase whereby natives typically win in the resources sector. Simply put, they have constitutionally protected land...

Two recent podcasts were produced by The Northern Miner upon review of my 2nd book ‘Resource Reckoning” in mid 2019. Editor John Cumming was effusive in his praise calling the podcast content ‘5-star quality’.

I’ve penned two articles for Corporate Knights Magazine, the first is of a general introduction on the subject of Resource Rulers; the second is on the folly of the Trans-Mountain pipeline and the many mistakes made by government. Required reading for strategists:...

Treaty 1 First Nations are feeling vindicated after a celebratory press conference this month, wherein the federal government announced its intention to convey the Kapyong Barracks to them with the intent of transforming it, in due course, to an urban reserve. What a...

There’s just been a major uplift in the native empowerment movement nationally, as a result of a series of federal announcements that prioritizes Indigenous land-rights. Indeed, this should have been a major news story, yet it went unreported, as mainstream media got...

A benchmark event has transpired with First Nations winning an important lawsuit at the Supreme Court of Canada respecting ‘saving’ a wilderness area the size of New Brunswick. They won on account that the Yukon Territorial Government had tried to do and end-run on...