June 18 In 2003, Inuvik-based Aboriginal Pipeline Group signed a landmark deal with Trans-Canada Corp. and four natural gas producers, giving natives in the Northwest Territories one-third ownership of a $5 billion Arctic pipleline project. In 2015, Manitoba became the first province to formally apologize for the ‘60s Scoop, when child-welfare agents removed aboriginal children from their families and placed them for adoption in non-Indigenous homes. A few days later, Alberta also apologized. In 2019, Justin Trudeau gave Canada’s controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion a second lease on life. The decision to approve the project a second time came nine months after the Federal Court of Appeal ripped up the original approval, citing incomplete Indigenous consultations and a faulty environmental review. The decision came the day after the Liberals passed

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