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After the success of our first webinar, we are excited to invite you to join ICA’s Decolonizing Climate Policy Webinar #2 on September 15, 2021 at 12:30-2pm CST
SAVE THE DATE! Join us September 15th for the 2nd webinar on Decolonizing Climate Policy.
After the success of our first webinar, we are excited to invite you to join ICA’s Decolonizing Climate Policy Webinar #2 on September 15, 2021 at 12:30-2pm CST
Building Movements in Defence of Life
Supporting Indigenous Sovereignty is one of ICA’s key pathways for building capacity for climate justice. This month we are excited to share that we were able to co-fundraise and contribute just over $10,000 CAD to the ‘Building Movements in Defense of Life’ fundraiser.
Today we mourn with 215 families
Today and this week we mourn with 215 families. We are taking this time to grieve and to feel all the emotions that have come up with the news of the unmarked mass grave discovered at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.
Indigenous Economics Conference
For the first time, Indigenous Climate Action is partnering with the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics to host a 3-day conference for Indigenous Economics: Reclaiming the Sacred. Taking place virtually from June 10-12, 2021, this conference will focus on 4 different themes of achieving a Just Transition to Indigenous-led, land-based, and ecologically-centred environmental action and economies. Indigenous folks are encouraged to contact Maggie at research@indigenousclimateaction.com to register.
Justice for the Kanien’kehá:ka of Kanehsatà:ke
Despite repeated requests for agreements that ensure inherent Indigenous rights and the protection of the lands and waters, housing developers of Oka, Quebec are pushing ahead with a desire for unfettered real estate development.
Ellen Gabriel shared the following speech on May 22nd, 2021 at a grassroots action of the Kanehsata:Ke Land Defence in defence of the Rotinonhseshá:ka Homelands and the Kanien’kehá:ka of Kanehsatà:ke.
Grand Back Movement Sounds the Alarm to Protect the Haldimand Tract
SIX NATIONS OF THE GRAND RIVER TERRITORY – Outside the Onondaga Longhouse on April 20, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council at Ohsweken/Six Nations of the Grand River Territory announced a moratorium on further development along the Haldimand Tract.
Want to know more about the current conflict Mi’kmaq fishermen face?
Learn more about the situation in Nova Scotia, as Mi’kmaq fishermen continue to fight to exercise their Treaty rights to fish for a moderate livelihood. Written by Mi’kmaq journalist, Amber Bernard.
Coalition of environmental, labour, health, faith groups call on Canada to increase its climate ambition
Today, the day before world leaders come together at the Leaders Climate Summit hosted by President Joe Biden, a coalition of groups came together to call on Canada’s federal government to increase the ambition of its actions to combat climate change.
Hello from Shay lynn, Our New Youth Engagement Lead
An introduction to our new Youth Engagement Lead, Shay lynn Sampson
New ICA Report: Critique of Federal Climate Policy Plans
Indigenous Climate Action, in collaboration with researchers Dr. Jen Gobby, Rebecca Sinclair, and Rachel Ivey, have released an in-depth critical analysis of Canada’s recent climate policy and plans: the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change (PCF) and A Healthy Environment, A Healthy Economy (HEHE). This is the first phase of a two part Decolonizing Climate Policy in Canada project.

