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September 30, 2025

UBCIC Calls for Commemoration, Education and Healing on National Day of Truth and Reconciliation

(xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil Waututh)/ Vancouver, B.C. – September 30, 2025) The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) recognizes National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day with renewed calls to support survivors’ healing and for provincial and federal government commitments to uphold the truth and promote understanding of Residential Schools in Canada.

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September 24, 2025

UBCIC Deeply Concerned with Ostrich Farm Cull

(xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil Waututh)/ Vancouver, B.C. – September 24, 2025) The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) is aware of conflicting reports regarding ongoing activities at the Universal Ostrich Farm in Edgewood, B.C. including plans for a highly contentious and brutal cull of ostriches in response to avian influenza. UBCIC is aware that local First Nations have not been consulted or engaged in decision making.

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September 24, 2025

First Nations Leadership Council Urges Ongoing Engagement and Support on Transformation of the Heritage Conservation Act

(xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh)/Vancouver, B.C.) The First Nations Leadership Council (FNLC) is reaffirming its strong support for updating the Heritage Conservation Act (HCA), a long-overdue modernization of outdated legislation that has not been substantively amended since 1996.

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September 18, 2025

UBCIC Concerned that Approval of Ksi Lisims LNG Project Ignores Full Environmental Impacts, Lacks Consent

(xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil Waututh)/ Vancouver, B.C. – September 18, 2025) On Monday September 15, the Province of B.C. and Canada announced they had granted an environmental assessment certificate for the Ksi Lisims LNG project despite the devastating climate impacts and strong opposition from neighbouring First Nations whose consent the Province failed to secure.

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Sept 16, 2025

First Nations Leadership Council Calls on the Province to Obtain Free, Prior and Informed Consent Before Granting Land Tenures

(xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh)/Vancouver, B.C.) The First Nations Leadership Council (FNLC) is calling on the Province to consult and cooperate with potentially affected First Nations in order to obtain their free, prior, and informed consent before decisions are made on Crown Land Application #1412379. Crown Land Application #1412379, submitted by the U.S.-based National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), seeks 77 “Crown land” tenures along the West Coast of British Columbia, encompassing First Nations’ ancient village sites

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September 11, 2025

First Nations Consent Ignored as Canadians Asked to Subsidize LNG Expansion

Mark Carney’s push to double LNG Canada as a “nation-building” project ignores the right of Indigenous peoples to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) and asks taxpayers to underwrite a project with no clear business case. 

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September 8, 2025

Comments of Premier David Eby counterproductive to true, lasting reconciliation

(xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh)/Vancouver, B.C.) The First Nations Leadership Council is shocked and appalled with Premier David Eby’s comments to media regarding a recent BC Supreme Court decision

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September 4, 2025

UBCIC Shares Deep Condolences with Hollow Water First Nation and Calls for an Immediate End to Violence

(xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil Waututh)/ Vancouver, B.C. – September 4, 2025) On September 4, 2025, Manitoba RCMP responded to a mass stabbing that occurred shortly before 8:30AM on Hollow Water First Nation, also known as Waanibiigaaw, located on the eastern shore of Lake Winnipeg in Treaty 5 Territory