by Savannah Carr-Wilson On November 28, 2019, British Columbia (“BC”)’s new Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, SBC 2019, c 44 (the “Declaration Act”) became law. The Declaration Act requires the provincial government to take all measures necessary…
by Savannah Carr-Wilson In September 2019, the BC Court of Appeal directed the Province to reconsider its environmental assessment certificate conditions for the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (“Trans Mountain”), after the Federal Court of Appeal’s decision in Tsleil-Waututh Nation v…
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…