Insights and Stories on First Nations

Canada, First Nations agree on unmet agricultural claims

Oct. 21, 2024 at 1:30 pm CDT

A handful of specific agricultural benefit claims between the federal government and nine First Nations were settled on Friday. Once fully settled, these claims—unmet promises in treaties 5, 6 and 10 territories throughout the Prairie provinces—will represent almost $1.4 billion in combined compensation to these First Nations.

Indigenous ag projects get financial stepping stone

Jul. 5, 2024 at 10:37 am CDT

By Miranda Leybourne

At Agribition: Northern community integrates tech, education into market garden

Nov. 23, 2023 at 2:45 pm CST

By Lisa Guenther

First Nations tribe spins hay into gold

Aug. 18, 2023 at 10:04 am CDT

By Jeff Melchior

Building bridges to Indigenous communities

Mar. 9, 2023 at 4:17 pm CST

By Glacier FarmMedia staff Gord Gilmour

Tighter regulations take effect for B.C. farmland reserve

Mar. 13, 2020 at 2:35 am CDT

New regulations governing how — or if — changes can be made to land’s status within British Columbia’s Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) are now in force, but local governments get more prep time for their expanded role. The province on Thursday announced amendments to the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC) Act […]

By GFM Staff

Churchill possibly to return to shipping grain

May. 4, 2018 at 7:17 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Grain could once again be shipped out of northern Manitoba’s Port of Churchill if all goes according to plan for a new potential ownership group. “The port has got all of the grain handling equipment and simply said, the first thing we want to do is resume […]

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

New step in Port of Churchill’s potential sale

Dec. 28, 2016 at 3:23 pm CST

Commodity News Service Canada – Ownership of the Hudson Bay rail line and shuttered Port of Churchill may change soon, as the port’s current owners and a collection of northern First Nations have inked a formal agreement, according to a company press release. Omnitrax, the rail company that currently owns […]

By MarketsFarm Team

‘Veil of uncertainty’ shrouds Churchill’s shipping season

Jun. 16, 2016 at 8:30 pm CDT

CNS Canada — Manitoba’s Port of Churchill is facing an uncertain grain shipping season, as ownership of the Hudson Bay facility is still up in the air, months after owner OmniTrax announced plans to sell the port and the railway that serves it. Denver-based OmniTrax announced in late 2015 it […]

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Guenther: Indigenous ag summit cultivates global ambition

Nov. 27, 2014 at 7:38 pm CST

Elmer Eashappie is an idea man. And on his mind today is an agricultural summit connecting First Nations groups worldwide to network and learn, all under the umbrella of Canadian Western Agribition. And that idea is closer to reality than one may think. Eashappie, an Agribition board member, is chairman […]