'Her impact was nationwide': B.C. NDP MLA Joan Phillip dead at 74

Published on August 29, 2026
Joan Phillip, the NDP MLA for Vancouver-Strathcona and wife of Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, has died.
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B.C. legislator and Indigenous leader Joan Phillip dies

August 28, 2026
The Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs says B.C. legislator and Indigenous leader Joan Phillip has died.

First Nations in Canada call for emergency order to protect southern mountain caribou

August 29, 2026
“Under our Syilx Okanagan law, everything is sacred to us. We believe that Mother Earth is alive, all of kʷuləncutn, the creator’s creation, that it’s all alive,” Chief Dan Wilson of the Okanagan Indian Band, a Syilx Okanagan Nation, told Mongabay in a phone call. “That’s why the caribou are so important to us … […]