by Shane Birley | Apr 28, 2021
Budget 2021 contained several investments in First Nation Housing and Infrastructure, which we have compiled here, including related investments: Budget 2021 proposes to invest $36 million over three years, starting in 2021-22, through the Strategic Partnerships...
by Shane Birley | Jan 15, 2021
On January 2nd, 2021, the Government of Canada proposed amendments to the Fishery Regulations in an effort to combat low fish stocks. In 2019 the federal government responded to Canada’s decades-long fishery crisis with amendments to the Fisheries Act that require...
by Shane Birley | Dec 3, 2020
Detailing the needs for federal investments to improve communities and further social and economic well being of all our people. Letter to Hon. Wayne Easter Chair of the Standing Committee Letter to Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Finance Finance Committee...
by Shane Birley | Jun 30, 2020
The Government of Canada is working with Indigenous peoples to right the wrongs of our past and pave the way for a new relationship based on rights, respect, cooperation, and partnership. In that spirit, the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard,...
by Shane Birley | Jun 2, 2020
The presence of North Atlantic right whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence has led the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) to close certain grid areas to fishing for the season.The effort is intended to protect the highly endangered right whales, which have...
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