APTN National News April 17, 2024 – Reaction to Budget 2024, Chinook salmon management agreement

e e e e e e we're already disappointed we see some new spending in different areas but we know that the infrastructure in our communities continues to crumble tonight first nation's leaders react to yesterday's budget announcement we're River people um and salmon people um we've depended on them for a shinook salmon management agreement between the US and Canada has some tribal Chiefs frustrated all of us deserve this chance to feel beautiful and special and um you know and a mate te model from Saskatchewan is set to make their debut on the catwalk hello and welcome to AB and national news on this beautiful Wednesday evening I'm Sav Jona first nation's leaders held a press conference in Ottawa today to give their thoughts on the federal budget that was released yesterday there is clearly disappointment that this year's budget did not focus enough on indigenous priorities abn's Fraser NM has more Finance Minister chrisa Freeland gave a 40 minute speech on the benefits of the 2024 budget in the House of Commons on Tuesday but never metion mentioned the words indigenous or reconciliation and this did not go on notice by First Nations leaders and yesterday Canadians heard how the federal government plans to spend resources for the coming months and years yet this process is mered by a glaring omission and I was there yesterday to be able to hear and I did not hear any words pertaining to reconciliation unfortunately Brendon Mitchell is the Assembly of First Nations Regional chief for New Finland who was hoping to see more of a commitment to First Nations in the budget I was expecting to see what I refer to as a Reconciliation budget yesterday I'll say it this way what I expected to see was a reconcil action budget and we did not see it I remember being with the prime minister in in large meeting rooms at two times at least where he stated that my main or first priority as Prime Ministers into indigenous people of this country and I really was hoping to see more last week the Assembly of First Nations put out a report that says it will take $349 billion to close the first nation's infrastructure Gap by 2030 auta does pledge $918 million over 5 years to address indigenous Housing and Community infrastructure but afn National Chief Cindy woodh house nepinak says it's nowhere near enough however analyzing the budget's proposals for housing police leing roads and water fall far short of closing the long-standing infrastructure gaps that creates so many difficulties for First Nations people Mohawk Council of Aquas Grand Chief Abram Benedict also says First Nations people can't wait for government to address the growing Gap we're already disappointed we see some new spending in different areas but we know that the infrastructure in our communities continues to crumble overcrowding continues to be a reality for a number of our communities our remote communities it's even worse APN news reached out to both the mate National Council and Inu tap kitami for comment but neither were available for on camera interviews instead both released separate statements where MNC president Cassie Karen says she is pleased there's an investment to recapitalize me de Capital corporations but itk president Nan OED says he's disappointed that there is no money to eliminate to bosis by 2030 Fraser Needum AP National News Ottawa after the federal budget was released yesterday assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Grand Chief Kathy Merrick gave Canada a failing grade on housing for first nation's people the trudo government committed 918 million doar over 5 Years in New funding towards indigenous housing and infrastructure that money is in addition to the5 billion from previous budgets however Grand Chief Kathy Merrick says it's not enough assembly of First Nations estimates that over 135 billion is needed to address the housing crisis in First Nations communities the new investment would contribute to less than 1% of that cost other new indigenous commitments include 1.1 billion for First Nations K to2 education and 1.1 billion toward First Nations and Inu health over 5 years today the United Nations uh sorry today the United Nations permanent Forum on indigenous issues entered its Third Day ABN news's Angel Moore was on the scene she reports that identity fraud by self-proclaimed indigenous groups was a topic of discussion I'm here at the United Nations Headquarters the abanaki nation of Quebec brought indigenous identity fraud to The Forum the nation says the abanaki of Vermont are made up of people who aren't indigenous and because of it their culture language and traditions are at risk despite that the state of Vermont recognizes the abanaki there as a Native American tribe Isaac Chapel Gil is a youth representative of the abanaki nation in Quebec world that watches us will listen to our voice and listen to our plea that the abanaki the fraudulent abanaki nations from Vermont are not actually abanaki that we are the people from this land and we want to claim back that title we don't want to be replaced we don't want our history to be reworked and Rewritten we want to take back her place as people from the territory to sel Gant is a member of the permanent Forum on indigenous issues she says the people who attend and say they are indigenous do it through self-identification but that doesn't mean the UN extends recognition automatically if they say that just being accredited to hear and then they say hey we are recognized by the UN I mean that would be misrepresenting the facts huh just because you get an accreditation here under the indigenous organization indigenous people's organization bad it's really not of a proof of uh of a formal recognition by the UN Taylor Gavin is from the broken head oig nation in Manitoba however she says the UN needs to take some accountability considering the them of this entire conference is self-determination with and enhancing youth voices we need to start equipping the youth as well with the strength and the courage to be able to ask ask these hard pressing questions and if the UN themselves can't ask these questions how how do we expect the youth to do the same thing the side events continue Thursday with the grand Council of the cre who will be Paving away for future Generations Angel Moore APN national news New York City a Manitoba judge shot down a motion from accused serial killer Jeremy scabi who claimed one of the four murder charges against him should be dropped in November scabi pleaded not guilty to the murders of Morgan Harris Rebecca cona Mercedes myin and a fourth unidentified woman named mishod b e or Buffalo Woman by the community this week his lawyer argued the charges related to the Buffalo woman should be quashed because there is no body or name to identify her so this charge is a nullity meaning it has no legal Force but court of King's bench chief justice Glenn joyle rejected the motion contois partial remains were found in the city owned Brady Landfill south of Winnipeg the remains of myin and Harris were never found they are believed to be in the privately owned Prairie green landfill north of Winnipeg the location of Buffalo woman's remains are unknown scab's jury trial starts April 29th and we need to take a quick break but stick around we'll have more stories when we return [Music] welcome back a controversial silica sand mine has been recently approved in Manitoba in part one of this two-part series we'll tell you why some community members MERS say it shouldn't go ahead when re samard moved to managot in Manitoba he was looking forward to retiring in the woods he wanted to enjoy the nature surrounding his reserve of hollow water First Nation but I didn't want to retire to having a mine right next door in February Premier wob Cano and environment Minister Tracy Schmidt approved Canadian premium sand or CPS to extract silica sand in the area 200 km north of Winnipeg the news came after 5 years of consultations between CPS and the previous Manitoba government and only a few months after canoe was elected during that time land protector group Camp Morning Star was fighting to be heard really what it comes back to is free prior informed consent if we had these conversations before anyone signed anything we would all know where everybody is right and and and by excluding people and not giving them The Voice this this this adversarial relationship happens and I had hoped that our government might bring something to the table with that um and that's my biggest disappointment is to have so quickly after the election um to be kind of trampled upon right um yeah that hurts MJ McCarron is part of Camp Morning Star along with samard and Kat sa e Phillips they say the approval went ahead without meaningful consultation between the provincial government CPS and their camp and ignores the environmental review process or Erp the Erp says the world views of indigenous people should be acknowledged and Incorporated in every project development decision and throughout implementation and monitoring and that indigenous Services Canada encourages proponents to engage meaningfully with concerned indigenous communities including different groups or subgroups of people within those communities in 2018 Hollow water First Nation received $250,000 from CPS to support the development of the project after the band Council signed a memorandum of understanding with the proponent C Morning Star says this ignored the community's section 35 rights to free prior and informed consent to Natural Resources projects on their traditional Territory aptn news attempted to reach Hollow water Chief Larry Barker on numerous occasions including in person but he could not be reached for comment Phillips who is also a member of hollow water First Nation says the approval is environmental racism you know the system was never put in place to benefit us you know it was not our system it still isn't our system but it definitely helps them get their foot in the door with our with our land and with our our you know our resources cat Morning Star believes the approval doesn't acknowledge the issue isues they brought forward through two appeals they worry about the mind's proximity to ceremony grounds and says there's little to no benefit for the communities it touches they mentioned the final report of the national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls which found there is substantial evidence of a serious problem demonstrated in the correlation between resource extraction and violence against indigenous women girls and 2s lgbtqqi and people work camps or man camps associated with the resource extraction industry are implicated in higher rates of violence against indigenous women at the camps and in the neighboring communities most of all Camp Morning Star is worried that the mind will have a negative impact on the ecosystem on the Moose who forage in the area or the medicine plants that grow there our whole Community is going to change and uh and uh I don't know it won't change for the better that's for sure APN news went to see where the mine will go upon arrival nature greeted us with a rare event 18 Eagles were seen flying above and around the exact spot where the mine is slated to go an unusual sighting for the solitary animal everybody comes here and then they say oh now I get it um because they imagine this is just Wilderness right it's it's the old tanus it's empty land and when we look at things trees we look at it as a resource you know the the um the uh Birch can give me paper it can give me sap it can give me things right but we don't think about our relationship with the lands ABN news reached out to CPS CEO Glenn Laro for comment on the sighting and how he thinks the M may affect these birds but did not hear back while the Eagles still fly high in the sky C Morning Star will be delivering a petition of over 6,000 signatures against the min's approval to Premier wab Cano along with a list of recommendations to revise the environmental review process coming up in part two of this report we'll have more on the economic impacts of this approved mine Sav Jona APN National News Winnipeg a new shinook salmon management agreement between the US and Canada is hoping to help rebuild dwindling salmon stocks But as Sarah Connors tells us some tribal Chiefs in Alaska are frustrated with how the agreement was reached here's that story for karma Alvi the chief of Eagle Alaska salmon is more than food it's a way of life where River people um and salmon people um we've depended on them for you know thousands of years shinuk salmon are the heartbeat of the Yukon river which runs through Alaska and the Yukon but in recent years numbers have been in decline because of things like climate change Habitat degradation and over fishing that's why earlier this month the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in fisheries and oceans Canada signed a new shanuk salmon management agreement the agreement puts a 7-year ban on shinook harvesting on both sides of the border so stocks can rebuild many times there are um decisions that are made without consulting tribes while Ali supports the agreement's overall goal she says Alaskan tribes weren't consulted by the state in the Yukon self-governing First Nations have a major say on salmon management but in Alaska it's largely left up to the state I think we were a little disappointed that we weren't consulted on any of these areas of discussion so it's kind of just thrown in thrown at us and it was It was kind of unexpected Rhonda pitka is the chief of beaver Alaska she has questions about a clause of the agreement which allows both countries to provide limited ceremonial Harvest opportunities at their discretion to me that that meant that our our funeral pot lotch um subsistence take uh wouldn't be guaranteed for for some of our ceremonies um so that's that's kind of upsetting the commissioner who signed the agreement on behalf of the state could not be reached for comment by deadline however a spokesperson for the DFO says both countries have their own ways of defining ceremonial Harvest opportunities Chief Ali would like to see more collaboration with Alaska on salmon management she says the time is now for everyone to work together to save the salmon um we'd really like the wild stocks to come back and be in abundance um whether or not that's in my lifetime or not I don't know Sarah Connor APN national news White Horse a Saskatchewan model is making their big debut on the cwalk we'll have that story for you and more when we return [Music] e welcome back time now for our photo of the day Julian experienced some snowfall in Lan Saskatchewan turns out old man winter saw some fight before the season fully transition stay warm and safe out there on the roads remember your photos can be sent to share at APN doca to be our next photo of the day now let's take a look at tomorrow's weather forecast it'll be 10 in rain in St John's 4 in some sun in charlott town seven in Sun in Happy Valley Goose Bay and two in hak 10 in Quebec City and 13 in Montreal 17 in Toronto 12 in North Bay Timmons will be 11 in rain and three in big trout lake Churchill will be minus 2 and plus two in Norway house three in Winnipeg and three in Baron River four in Regina seven in North Battleford zero in Sun in Stony Rapids and minus one in Meadow Lake sun and three in Fort McMurray sun and six in Peace River there'll be three in Medicine Hat and five in Edmonton Vancouver will be sunny and 15 and sunny and 12 in Corell Prince George will be 10 Fort Nelson will be 12 10 in Watson Lake and six in Old Crow One in Sun in Yellow knife and six in Sun in Norman Wells kville Lake will be zero in sunny and four in Tuk toyuk Chester Field will be Min - 9 in Sun and-4 in Cambridge Bay C8 will be minus5 in snow and- 26 in Resolute a new internship program in Winnipeg is giving indigenous students hands-on experience in healthcare Sierra Bens has the story months ago great 11 student Emma Bellic had her heart set on becoming a veterinarian but shadowing nurses in the labor and delivery Ward opened her eyes to a new career path I was with a bunch of different nurses who were doing their 24-hour checks on the babies who were just born and that was like really cool and just to see all the babies was really cute and then in the afternoon I got the chance to be in in a room with a lady who was in labor Emma is one of several students participating in a 17-week indigenous student work experience program at the St bonfice Hospital the program was spearheaded by Clayton Sandy a St bonfice Hospital board member and knowledge Keeper at the River East Transcona School Division Sandy says the program offers Hands-On opportunities and experiences that go beyond the classroom I dropped in like 3 weeks ago it's we have it every Tuesday a full day and the students were at the research lab and they all had a tray with a with a heart a pig's heart in it and it kind of blew me away because they're all they're all cutting it open stuff like that and handling it and stuff like that and yeah I I just thought how many students ever get an opportunity to do something like this ever that experience was pivotal for Matt Tano a grade 11 student at Murdoch M collegate who hopes to become a cardiac surgeon he says the program has given him a clearer picture of what he wants to do in the future I think my favorite spot is cr5 in the asper asper Ward which is post op surgery so right after the cardiacc surgery happens and I found that very interesting and it tried my interest for what I wanted to become later in the future by offering high schoolers on the job experience Sandy hopes the program will nurture future indigenous healthcare workers they in grade 11 11 or 12 I'm hoping that many of them will maybe continue on postsecondary into some field that um that they had an experience to go into here at at the hospital now 2 months into the program 's tremendous value in expanding indigenous representation in healthcare it can be scary for lots of indigenous people coming here and it's a very fast-paced environment and on if you see somebody who you can connect with or feel similar to then I feel like it'd be more like comfortable for them Sierra butt EPN National News Winnipeg a model from Saskatchewan is set to be part of the first annual Santa Fe indigenous Fashion Week the part-time model and graduate student is encouraging indigenous youth to follow their dreams in the fashion industry our reporter Rachel May spoke with them ahead of the show our diversity is what makes us beautiful and I feel like especially in the modeling world we don't think about that enough originally from the matey community of St Louis Saskatchewan otana chako sisu is now an international model gracing megazine covers such as tribal art magazine and walking down both runways in Canada and America aoan normally studies anthropology Native American studies and geology at the University of New Mexico but is now heading to Santa Fe to model in the first annual Santa Fe indigenous Fashion Week they say that the fashion industry needs more indigenous representation and that they're happy to see events like this taking place all of us deserve this chance to feel beautiful and special and um you know really be upheld by their Community when it comes to encouraging indigenous people to join the fashion industry aaan says it's important to never forget your culture i consistently just follow my passions and my dreams sort of like my ancestors who moved across the land and pursued their dreams and their passions the first annual Santa Fe indigenous Fashion Week kicks off on May 2nd and runs until May 5th Rachel May ABN National news Saskatoon and that brings us to the end of our newscast for today for news anytime please check out our website at APN news.ca I'm Sav jonza and from all of us here at APN news thank you so much for joining us tonight take [Music] care e e

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Published: Thu Apr 18 2024