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The Over-Representation of Indigenous People in Prison – The Honourable Harry S. LaForme – First Peoples Law
November 24, 2021 Put em in Jail! There are many reasons why Indigenous people today are dramatically over-represented in Canada’s prisons. Much of this has been documented by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1999 in the seminal case of R. v. Gladue. The bottom line is that Indigenous people suffer intergenerational trauma from the […]
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First Peoples Law Report Nov 15-21, 2021 – First Peoples Law
Land defence, evacuations and UNDRIP topped BC headlines Land defenders arrested on Wet’suwet’en territory as RCMP enforces Coastal GasLink injunction | The Narwhal Gidimt’en Yintah Access | Yintah Access Sumas First Nation chief reflects on ‘disaster’ B.C. flooding where lake used to be | Global News First Nations in BC Experiencing Compounded Emergencies; BC and Canada Must […]
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Law Society of BC: Bencher election results
November 16, 2021 Eight lawyers, including five Indigenous lawyers, have been elected to their first term on the governing board of Benchers. They will be joined by 17 Benchers who are returning following election or acclamation in their district, and five appointed Benchers, in forming a board that better reflects the diversity of the public […]
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Unprecedented’: 5 Indigenous lawyers elected to B.C. Law Society leadership in major victory – CBC
Nov 17, 2021 Prior to current election only 2 Indigenous benchers have been elected in society’s 137 year history Five Indigenous lawyers have been elected to the leadership of the Law Society of B.C. in a result the victors are hoping will help to transform the province’s legal profession. West Vancouver lawyer Kelly Russ said […]
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First Peoples Law Report Nov 8-14, 2021 – First Peoples Law
Treaty rights were front and centre on the east coast Mi’kmaw grandmothers hold feast after defeating Alton Gas | APTN News Cutting begins in Digby forest where Mi’kmaw chiefs asked for logging pause | CBC News The Restoule Treaty annuities litigation returned to Ontario news Robinson-Huron Treaty annuity update long over due say First Nations | APTN […]
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Indigenous Lawyers Aim to Change the Legal System from the Top – The Tyee
Several candidates are vying for bencher position in the Law Society of BC. Katrina Harry clearly remembers the moment she found her calling in the legal field. She had been practicing for a couple of years in Aboriginal and general law when she was asked to take on a child protection matter for Legal Aid […]
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Norton Rose Fulbright gifts $100,000 to St. Paul’s Hospital for Indigenous wellness
Global business law firm Norton Rose Fulbright today announced a gift of C$100,000 to St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation and Providence Health Care to support Indigenous wellness and reconciliation. The funding will be used for developing a welcoming, safe and culturally appropriate care experience for Indigenous patients at the hospital now and leading into the new […]
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Indigenous lawyers make unprecedented bid for B.C. law society leadership – CBC
Nov 09, 2021 Powerful dissenting opinion in residential school-related discipline case backgrounds historic election Kelly Russ still recalls meeting Judge Alfred Scow, B.C.’s first Indigenous judge, in Prince Rupert when he was attending elementary school with Scow’s children. Scow, who died in 2013, was the first Indigenous person to graduate from law school in B.C. and the […]
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First Peoples Law Report Nov 1-7, 2021 – First Peoples Law
It was Treaties Recognition Week in Ontario Anishinabek Nation kicks off Treaties Recognition Week with new online treaty education resources for everyone | Anishinabek News Treaty recognition week underway in Ontario | APTN News Also in Ontario, land defence and consultation were front and centre More than half of charges related to Land Back Lane occupation withdrawn […]
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B.C. First Nation brings constitutional challenge to province’s Gold Rush-era mineral tenure law – The Lawyer’s Daily
A British Columbia First Nation has filed a constitutional challenge of the province’s system of staking mineral claims, saying the legislation leads to Indigenous people being dispossessed of their title and rights. Under the Mineral Tenure Act, there is an automatic registration system where a person known as a “free miner” can acquire a mineral […]
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