Squamish First Nation recently succeeded on its appeal of a lower court decision (2017 FC 1182) upholding a DFO decision to allocate only five sockey salmon per person per year. While the lower court found no duty of DFO to…
A recent Ontario Court of Appeal case has addressed the right of a litigant to assert that a family dispute is governed by the Indigenous laws of the Haudenosaunee: Beaver v. Hill, 2018 ONCA 816. The appeal arose in the…
Kirby Corporation sentenced in Bella Bella for 2016 oil spill in Heiltsuk territory When an articulated-tug-barge operated by Houston-based Kirby Corporation grounded and sank in 2016 outside Gale Pass, near Bella Bella, it spilled oil in the waters of one…
On May 24, 2019, the BC Court of Appeal released a much-anticipated decision in the Reference re: Environmental Management Act (British Columbia), 2019 BCCA 181. BC asked the Court of Appeal to address BC’s constitutional authority to amend the Environmental…
On June 3, 2019, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls released its Final Report, titled “Reclaiming Power and Place”, at its closing ceremony. The Final Report includes 231 recommendations, or “Calls for Justice” directed at…