Podcast! Saugeen Ojibway Nation Appeal: Canada Concedes that Aboriginal Title and Public Navigation Can Co-Exist
The Ontario Court of Appeal is hearing the appeal of the Saugeen First Nation...
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Podcast! Gitxaała Nation’s challenge, featuring Tara Marsden
Tara Marsden (Naxginkw) Tara Marsden, whose Gitxsan name is Naxginkw, joins Ruben and Gavin...
Read MorePodcast! Gitxaała Nation’s challenge, with counsel for First Nations intervenors
Karim Ramji, counsel for Nuxalk Nation and Ts’kw’aylaxw First Nation Alex Kirby, counsel for...
Read MorePodcast! Gitxaala Nation’s challenge from the perspective of a pro-FPIC miner
Tony Fogarassy of First Tellurium Corp. Ruben interviews Tony Fogarassy, chairperson of First Tellurium...
Read MorePODCAST! Gitxaala Nation’s challenge to BC’s Mineral Tenure Act
Lisa Fong (centre), Rachel Ariss (left) and Ruben Tillman (right) Lisa, Rachel and Ruben...
Read MoreGITXAALA NATION’S CHALLENGE TO BC’s MINERAL CLAIM REGIME
On October 25, 2021, Gitxaala Nation filed a Petition in the Supreme Court of...
Read MoreADVANCED COSTS: CAN FIRST NATIONS AFFORD TO PROVE THEY ARE POOR ENOUGH TO OBTAIN ACCESS TO JUSTICE?
The SCC has recently addressed the test for “advanced costs” in the Anderson case, which involved an Indigenous government alleging treaty breaches by the Crown. To afford the litigation...
Read MoreUNDRIP AND DRIPA: “VACUOUS POLITICAL BROMIDE” OR A BASIS FOR SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE TO THE COMMON LAW OF ABORIGINAL RIGHTS?
In the recent Saik’uz case, the BC Supreme Court touched on what may be one of the most fundamental disputes in Canadian aboriginal law...
Read MoreSAIK’UZ: DOES ABORIGINAL TITLE TO WATERBED REALLY GIVE RISE TO AN INSURMOUNTABLE CONFLICT?
In Saik’uz First Nation v Rio Tinto Alcan Inc., 2022 BCSC 15, the Supreme Court of BC addressed, but did not decide, a dispute about aboriginal title over riverbeds of navigable rivers...
Read MoreThe Devastating discovery of unmarked graves at Kamloops Indian and Marieval Indian Residential Schools
by Savannah Carr-Wilson Our firm stands in solidarity with the residential school survivors, Indigenous...
Read MoreCommercial Litigation Team of the Year!
In May 2021, Ng Ariss Fong received a Canadian Law Award! We and several...
Read MoreR. v. Desautel (2021 SCC 17) and the aboriginal peoples of Canada
by Ruben Tillman The Supreme Court of Canada (the “SCC”) has ruled that people...
Read MoreAffirming a Fuller Expression of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth’s Right to Fish and Sell Fish: Ahousaht Indian Band and Nation v Canada (Attorney General), 2021 BCCA 155
by Savannah Carr-Wilson This BC Court of Appeal decision is about the scope of...
Read MoreThe Wet’suwet’en movement: signalling the need for a new approach based on inherent rights recognition
by Savannah Carr-Wilson RCMP action against Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs opposing the Coastal GasLink pipeline...
Read MoreBC’S new Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act: A step towards reconciliation
by Savannah Carr-Wilson On November 28, 2019, British Columbia (“BC”)’s new Declaration on the...
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