{"id":249660,"date":"2025-10-30T08:09:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T08:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/249660\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T08:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T08:09:21","slug":"more-than-500-people-pack-richmond-hotel-to-learn-about-cowichan-nation-land-ruling-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/249660\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 500 people pack Richmond hotel to learn about Cowichan Nation land ruling &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>More than 500 people packed the Sheraton Hotel near Vancouver International Airport on Tuesday night, wanting to hear more about the potential impacts of a major B.C. Supreme Court ruling involving the Cowichan Nation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761403809_563_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Many attendees expressed frustration and uncertainty over what was going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>In August, B.C.\u2019s Supreme Court granted the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11324599\/canadas-longest-trial-precedent-setting-bc-land-claim-first-nations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Quw\u2019utsun Nation (Cowichan Nation) Aboriginal title<\/a> over 5.7 km of land in Richmond.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the City of Richmond sent a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11485686\/richmond-homeowners-letter-first-nations-land-claim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">letter to a group of 150 property owners<\/a>, warning them that the case could compromise the validity of their ownership.<\/p>\n<p>The Cowichan Nation argued against this and said the ruling does not erase anyone\u2019s private property.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'City of Richmond hosts session on Cowichan court decision'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/aaron.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:47<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCity of Richmond hosts session on Cowichan court decision\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, though, officials gave a presentation on what the city has argued for in the case.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11500061\/lotto-max-jackpot-ticket-sold-ontario-october-28\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761811759_349_20230628140636-649c7deb38278d1212f760d3jpeg.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t$40M Lotto Max jackpot ticket sold in Ontario for 6th time this year\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11485001\/russian-snipers-canadian-rifles-sanctions\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761811760_901_russian-sniper.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tRussian snipers are using Canadian rifles, despite sanctions\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The city believes that affected landowners should have been given notice of those proceedings by the Cowichan Nations and that the lack of notice was a contentious point for those impacted last night.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761403811_316_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>That was the subject of a somewhat tense exchange between Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie and a property owner during the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Brodie said it was the Cowichan Nation\u2019s job, as the plaintiff in the case, to inform affected landowners. However, those landowners were not informed of the case <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11485686\/richmond-homeowners-letter-first-nations-land-claim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">until the City of Richmond sent a letter<\/a> to those addresses.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Richmond is appealing the decision along with the provincial and federal governments.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size More than 500 people packed the Sheraton Hotel near Vancouver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,116791,116792,43,44,41685,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-249660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-canada","tag-cowichan-nation","tag-cowichan-nation-aboriginal-title","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-perspectives","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}