Above photo: Joshua Best, Stand.Earth. At Royal Bank of Canada shareholder meeting, Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs call for an end to fossil fuel finance. Kicking-off shareholder season, Indigenous land defenders, climate finance experts, youth activists ramp up pressure on RBC. Traditional territories of the Ho-de-no-sau-nee-ga (Haudenosaunee), Anishinabewaki ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ, Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, Mississauga, and Wendake-Nionwentsïo […]
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Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs Demand Royal Bank Stop Financing Pipeline
Unceded Gidimt’en territory, so-called Smithers, British Columbia, Canada – On Friday, February 25, Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs met with Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and City National Bank (CNB) executives demanding the bank withdraw financing for the Coastal GasLink pipeline by March 11. The meeting marked the first-ever meeting between RBC leadership and Indigenous land defenders, […]
A Third Force Behind Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict?
nsnbc : The armed conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh lingers on after military clashes erupted Saturday. Both sides accused each other of breaking the 1994 truce along the front line. The Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) described the renewed war as painful and disturbing. Russian President Vladimir Putin called […]