Ep. 103: Will First Nations Factor into the Battle over Bitumen?

War in the west: as Alberta battles British Columbia over pipeline expansion, we look at whether a new front could open up against First Nations / Revisiting the review of resource projects: the Liberals claim their new bill better includes Indigenous perspectives in the assessment of energy mega-projects. Does it go far enough? / What’s in a nickname? The US president jeeringly calls her ‘Pocahontas.’ But do Senator Elizabeth Warren’s claims to Indigeneity even remotely hold up?

Back at the roundtable are Kim TallBear, associate professor of Native Studies at the University of Alberta, and Candis Calison, associate professor at UBC’s Graduate School of Journalism.

// Our theme is ‘nesting’ by birocratic.