The CWVPOS Fall 2026 newsletter: a new director, our July 16 meeting with Minister Neill, Brett Wilson's support, the PHARA challenge to DRIPA, and the October 24 BC election.

Jason Clemens and Tegan Hill examine how the BC government's bilateral land-use agreements with Indigenous groups — negotiated largely without public scrutiny — are fundamentally altering private property rights across British Columbia, even as Premier Eby publicly criticizes court decisions that produce similar outcomes.

ʔAkisq̓nuk First Nation writes to BC's Minister of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship requesting the immediate suspension of all new and proposed development on the shorelines of Lake Windermere and Columbia Lake, citing irreparable harm to their Aboriginal rights and the need for an Indigenous-led lake stewardship plan.