The Social Affairs Commission chair wrote to the federal government about recent proposals for oil and gas legislation (Bill C-48), asserting that the legislation would pose a serious threat to Aboriginal Peoples of the North and other permanent residents of the territories.
The chair of the Social Affairs Commission wrote to the prime minister regarding the Amax Corporation operation in Kitsault, BC, and the Nishga Tribal Council, urging a full-scale independent inquiry on social and environmental impacts.
Beatification in Rome of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Indigenous person from North America to be beatified.
Founding of Anishinabe Spiritual Centre, Anderson Lake (Espanola), ON by the Jesuits of Upper Canada. It is a retreat centre for Native Canadians. It became the site of the Indian Lay Permanent Deacon program and Ojibway Theological Centre for the formation of Native permanent deacons and priests. It has offered […]
The Northern Native Rights Campaign was organized by the Project North ecumenical coalition, with participation of the Conference’s Social Affairs Department, to raise public awareness about the concerns of the northern Native peoples for aboriginal nationhood in the context of constitutional debate about the political future of the country. The […]
The Conference’s Social Affairs Commission and its Human Rights Committee wrote to the minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development expressing concern about the government’s plan not to renew the freeze on mining exploration in the Baker Lake region of the Northwest Territories and about the possibility that uranium companies […]
The Upper Canadian Province of the Jesuits (the English Canadian Jesuits) established an Indian Lay Permanent Deacon program and opened an Ojibway Theological Centre at Spanish, ON.
The Social Affairs Commission chair wrote to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Hugh Faulkner regarding the Proposed Polar Gas Project to bring natural gas from the High Arctic to southern Canada. The Canadian Church leaders’ 1976 statement Justice Demands Action was attached to […]
Presentation of a brief to the National Energy Board hearings on the Mackenzie Valley pipeline by the Social Affairs Commission Chair.
Statement of Evidence by the Project North inter-church coalition before the Berger Commission, entitled “A Call for a Moratorium: Some Moral and Ethical Considerations in Relation to the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline”.