Twenty-five years after the landmark Delgamuukw case, Canada is still failing to fulfil its legal obligations to Indigenous Peoples.
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The “blackout period” was a time when the Canadian government banned lawyers from representing Indigenous Peoples.
Noront Resources share prices are climbing, but so too is Indigenous opposition to its proposing mining projects in the Ring of Fire. Now the mine’s viability is being called into question.
The life and work of seminal South African writer, intellectual and politician Sol Plaatje seems more relevant than ever. We look into some of the latest scholarly inquiry.
Ontario’s approach to assessing the environmental impacts of mining in the Ring of Fire region couldn’t address concerns about the cumulative consequences of development.
Rather than the duty to consult, governments should proactively engage with Indigenous treaties or other locally relevant treaties, agreements, laws and relationships at all stages of law-making.
Removing statues of historical figures may be important symbolic statements when it comes to reconciliation, but action on important Indigenous issues like land claims and education are needed more.
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Associate professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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York Research Chair in Environmental Law & Justice in the Green Economy, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia
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Professor Emeritus of History, University of Saskatchewan
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Executive Director, Shared Path Consultation Initiative; Doctoral student, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Concordia University
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Assistant Professor of Criminology, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Adjunct professor, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph
