by Savannah Carr-Wilson RCMP action against Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs opposing the Coastal GasLink pipeline has generated a wave of support and led to solidarity blockades across Canada. To understand the events of the past few weeks, and their future significance,…
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…