Brandi Morin

Alberta

Brandi Morin, Métis, born and raised in Alberta, possesses a passion for telling Indigenous stories. Based outside Edmonton, Morin has lent her talents to several news organizations, including the CBC, Indian Country Today Media Network and the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, National News. She is now hard at work striving to tell the stories of Canada's Indigenous peoples to a broader audience.

11 Articles

The story of a pipeline and the communities in its path

This pipeline project and showdown with the Wet’suwet’en is complicated — more than can be understood just by reading an article slamming one side or hailing another. Its dotted with rumours and misconceptions of the people affected. And it involves digging deeper. A lot deeper.

By Brandi Morin | Features | February 13th 2020

Indigenous groups at COP push for ‘emergency’ protections

Group calls on Canada to live up to its obligations as a signatory to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

By Brandi Morin | News | December 9th 2019

Can First Nations Power Authority transform the energy industry?

Canada's Clean Economy

By Brandi Morin | News, Energy | November 24th 2019

Landslide threatens First Nations and commercial salmon harvest

Federal and provincial officials are working non-stop along with local First Nations near Big Bar, north of Lillooet, B.C. in a race to save sockeye salmon after a major landslide in the Fraser River.

By Brandi Morin | News | August 8th 2019

Nathaniel Wapahoo holds his eight-month-old daughter Brielle on the cot their sleeping on at the Calling Lake recreation centre in Alberta on June 2, 2019. Photo by Brandi Morin

Blue skies bring some hope as Alberta fights wildfires

The encroaching danger caused some locals to panic and disburse to different locations like High Prairie, Slave Lake, Sherwood Park and Edmonton. The evacuee registration station was in Calling Lake where most members are staying at the recreation center, elementary school and camping out in tents where they can find space.

Race Against Climate Change

By Brandi Morin | News | June 3rd 2019

Haisla Nation Chief Councillor Crystal Smith on March 9, 2019. Photo by Brandi Morin

Once managing poverty, now managing wealth

“My girls' lives are going to be so different because of all this opportunity." Haisla Nation Chief Councillor Crystal Smith looks forward as she endures severe personal criticism over her community's participation in mutual benefit agreements with the Coastal GasLink and LNG Canada project to pipe and liquefy natural gas for export to Asian markets from the Northwest Pacific coast.

First Nations Forward

By Brandi Morin | Features | June 3rd 2019

Jarett Sutherland, on the right, with his mother and siblings. He has been missing in the Fort St. James, B.C. area since early April, 2019. Photo family handout

Mother desperate to find missing son in northern B.C.

Jarett Sutherland's mother disputes an RCMP report that he may have taken his own life. And the Chief of the Nak'azdli First Nation has raised questions about whether the RCMP is thoroughly investigating the 27-year-old man’s disappearance. The RCMP say they are throwing full resources into it.

By Brandi Morin | News | April 25th 2019

Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief: 'Reconciliation is not at the barrel of a gun'

“I kept thinking of the prime minister and how he said there was no more important relationship than the one with Indigenous people. And then here come all these guns…Reconciliation is not at the barrel of a gun.”- Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Na’moks reflects on the RCMP raid of a resistance camp blocking construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline in January, 2019.

First Nations Forward

By Brandi Morin | News | April 16th 2019

Chief Arthur Patrick in front of the Stellat'en First Nation band office in Stellako, B.C. on March 5, 2019. Photo by Brandi Morin

Stellat'en First Nation's traditional culture 'pretty much gone,' but LNG agreement offered relief from 'enforced poverty'

“At the end it was easy because we negotiated the best deal we could,” said Stellat’an Chief Arthur Patrick. “Natural gas is more benign to the environment than oil and coal. Natural gas will replace coal in other parts of the world, like China. If we can be a part of that replacement, then I think we’re doing the world some good.”

First Nations Forward

By Brandi Morin | Features | April 10th 2019

A street on the Nakazdli First Nation reserve located 160 kilometres northwest of Prince George, B.C., on territory where the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline will cross. March 3, 2019. Photo by Brandi Morin

Here's what happens when an energy pipeline company comes calling

What happens when an energy pipeline developer comes to town? Brandi Morin examines the pressure on a First Nations community in central interior B.C. when Enbridge, with an oil pipeline proposal, and then TransCanada, with the Coastal GasLink project, came calling. Elected Nak’azdli Whut’en Chief Alexander McKinnon relives one of the most difficult decisions of his life.

First Nations Forward

By Brandi Morin | Features, Energy, Politics | April 9th 2019