By Wolfgang Depner An annual gathering of municipal leaders from across British Columbia opens in Vancouver today with the province’s Indigenous rights legislation high on the agenda, along with housing and public safety, among other topics. The Union of B.C. Municipalities convention runs until Friday and president Cori Ramsay says the future of B.C.’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act will be top of mind for many of the nearly 2,000 expected delegates. Ramsay says local governments are highly committed to reconciliation and have been working for years to build relationships with First Nations. But the city councillor from Prince George, B.C., says uncertainty has stemmed from recent court rulings, including a successful challenge by First Nations to B.C.’s mineral tenure system The B.C. Court of Appeal ruled… <\/p>\n
By Wolfgang Depner An annual gathering of municipal leaders from across British Columbia opens in Vancouver today with the province’s Indigenous rights legislation high on the agenda, along with housing and public safety, among other topics. The Union of B.C. Municipalities convention runs until Friday and president Cori Ramsay says the future of B.C.’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act will be top of mind for many of the nearly 2,000 expected delegates. Ramsay says local governments are highly committed to reconciliation and have been working for years to build relationships with First Nations. But the city councillor from Prince George, B.C., says uncertainty has stemmed from recent court rulings, including a successful challenge by First Nations to B.C.’s mineral tenure system The B.C. Court of Appeal ruled... <\/p>\n