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Wawmeesh Hamilton

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Brenda Sayers has spearheaded the fight against the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement on the grounds that the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper should have consulted Indigenous Peoples before ratifying it.
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Hupacasath First Nation Loses Court Bid to Stop Canada-China Investment Treaty

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
Brenda Sayers, council member of Hupacasath First Nation on Vancouver Island, is 'shocked and disappointed' at Canada's ratification of an investment treaty with China in which they were not consulted.
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Canada Approves China Investment Treaty While First Nations Consent Issue Still in Court

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
The memorial dedicated to students who attended the Alberni Indian Residential School. The piece has since been vandalized and police have no suspects.
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Vandals Desecrate Memorial to Residential School Survivors in British Columbia

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
Hupacasath First Nation Council Member Brenda Sayers explains the legal challenge mounted against the Canada-China investment treaty at a 2013 gathering in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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Consultation Under Fire as First Nation Fights Canada-China Treaty in Court

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
Innocence Project Northwest Attorney Fernanda Torres, left, with Brandon and Melissa Olebar the day Olebar was released from prison.
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Wrongfully Imprisoned Native Brandon Olebar Adjusts to Freedom

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
Hupacasath First Nation Council Member Brenda Sayers explains the legal challenge mounted against the Canada-China investment treaty in Hamilton, Ontario.
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Judge Throws Out Hupacasath First Nation's Legal Challenge to Canada-China Investment Treaty

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
Brenda Sayers, council member of Hupacasath First Nation on Vancouver Island, says that Canada struck a key, but secretive, investment deal with China that lacks aboriginal consultation and is thus illegal.
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Hupacasath First Nation Heads to Court Over Canada-China Treaty, Holds June 5 Day of Action

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
Anietsachist, Victor Amos of the Hesquiaht First Nation (right), accepts a gift from BC Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ida Chong (far left), at a feast on November 16. Chong expressed regret on behalf of the BC government for the wrongful hanging of two Hesquiaht men in 1869. (Photo: Wawmeesh Hamilton)
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143 Years Later, Apology for a Wrongful, and Public, Hanging

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
John Furlong, formerly the Vancouver Olympic organizing committee CEO and now the executive chair of Major League Soccer's Vancouver Whitecaps, responded to allegations of abuse at a press conference on September 27.
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Former Vancouver Olympics CEO Battles Allegations He Abused Burns Lake Students in '69

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
Photo of BC Highway 16, heading towards Prince Rupert from Terrace.
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Oldest DNA Match in Interpol’s History Links Dead American Convict to Highway of Tears Victim

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
Tseshaht Councillor Hugh Braker, left, and tribe operations manager Ken Watts stand before one of many tire piles located in an abandoned tire dump one mile from tribal lands. The dump is a fire and environmental hazard and the tribe wants the provincial government to clean it up.
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Abandoned Recycling Plant’s Tire Dump Threatens Tseshaht First Nation Health, Leaders Say

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
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Vancouver Creates Aboriginal-Focused School

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
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Sentencing Rule Causing Consternation But Supported by Aboriginal Leaders

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
Skidegate Saints player Joel Richardson,wearing black with ball, goes up strong for two points in a 66-62 win over the Heiltsuk Nation in the 2012 BC Junior All Native boys division final. Richardson was named tournament MVP
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From Shattered Dream to Basketball Junior All Native Tourney Win

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
A composite photograph of three angles of the Nuu-chah-nulth ceremonial club, valued at $1.2 million, that has been donated by a collector to the UBC Museum of Anthropology.
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Nuu-chah-nulth Treasure Returned to Home Territory in B.C.

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
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Sold-Out Conference Draws 1,400-Plus Aboriginal Youth

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
More than 2,000 people packed the Alberni Athletic Hall on Sunday afternoon for the grand opening of the B.C. Junior all Native Basketball Tournament in Port Alberni.
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March Madness Strikes B.C. in Aboriginal Basketball Youth Tourney

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
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Missing Women Commission of Inquiry Suspends Hearings to Search for New Aboriginal Lawyer

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
Attorney Robyn Gervais, left, has withdrawn from the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry. She was the only attorney representing aboriginal interests; the rest are all for police.
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Aboriginal Attorney and Group Withdraw from Pickton Inquiry

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
This handout photo shows a posterboard of 48 missing women used in the police interview of accused serial killer Robert Pickton after his arrest in February 2002. The posterboard was released by Justice James Williams for the media to record at Pickton's trial in New Westminster, Wednesday, January 31, 2007. (AP Photo/CP)
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Format Change Further Erodes Credibility of Missing Women's Commission in Aboriginal Eyes

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
Between 2,000 and 5,000 people turned out in Vancouver alone to commemorate disappeared and murdered aboriginal women and protest the lack of resolution to their cases, which number in the hundreds.
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Thousands Turn Out for Largest Women’s Memorial March to Date

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
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Education Report Calls for Urgent Action on First Nation Schools

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
L-R, Boundary-Similkameen MLA John Slater, B.C. Premier Christy Clarke and Osoyoos CEO and Chief Clarence Louie stand in front of the Senkulmen Enterprise Park on Osoyoos land.
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Osoyoos Indian Band Land to Host New Prison

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
L-R: Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development John Duncan and Tyrone McNeil, president of the First Nations Education Steering Committee, signing the Tripartite Education Framework Agreement in Ottawa.
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B.C. Schools Agreement Gives On-Reserve Students Funding Parity

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
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Tlowitsis Member Loses Eagle Parts Appeal in B.C.

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
The Babine Forest Products Sawmill in Burns Lake, British Columbia, was still smoldering two days after the fire that leveled the building, killed two aboriginal workers and injured 19.
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First Nations Vow to Rebuild Leveled Burns Lake Sawmill After Explosion and Fire Kill Two Aboriginal Men

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
RCMP Assistant Commissioner Craig Callens in December. On January 27 he apologized for the shortcomings in the investigation into serial killer Robert Pickton, the first RCMP officer to do so.
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RCMP Apologizes for Botched Pickton Investigation; Force Saw Inquiry Coming Back in 2000

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
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Fraudsters Who Toppled Two Aboriginal Organizations Get Prison Time

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
Woodcarver John T. WIlliams
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No Federal Criminal Charges to Be Filed in Woodcarver’s Shooting

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
Cropped image of an electron micrograph of the Hepatitis A virus (HAV).
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Outbreak of Hepatitis A on Vancouver Island Hitting Aboriginals Hard

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
The designated areas in which Huuayaht have woodland licenses
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B.C.’s First Woodlands License Means Economic Sustainability

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
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Possible Cuts Loom for Sustainable Energy Projects That Support B.C. First Nations

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
Lax Kw’Alaams First Nation has been denied the right to sell harvested seafood commercially and operate a fishery.
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Supreme Court Says Lax Kw’Alaams Cannot Commercially Sell Their Fish

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
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Two Aboriginals Await Embezzlement Sentencing in Case that Sank Two Fisheries Groups

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, federal Minister of Health, British Columbia Minister of Health Michael De Jong, the B.C. First Nations Health Council and the B.C. First Nations Health Society today signed a landmark legal agreement that will ensure B.C. First Nations have a major role in the planning and management of health services for First Nations through a new First Nations health governance structure.
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British Columbia First Nations Take Over Health Care from Federal Government

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
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Ahousaht First Nation Loses Another Member to Car Wreck

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
Salmon being tested for radiation from Japan nuclear disaster have come up clean
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Fish Tests Radiation-negative, But Where's It From?

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
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Returning Salmon Being Tested for Radiation from Japanese Nuclear Plant as a Precaution

By Wawmeesh Hamilton
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Ahousaht First Nations Fisheries Manager Killed by Drunk Driver

By Wawmeesh Hamilton