Exploring Theme: "Court Cases"

New video shown by Crown during hearing for Wet’suwet’en leader’s abuse-of-process claim CBC Indigenous: A Crown lawyer suggested the RCMP behaved reasonably in the circumstances as she cross-examined a Wet’suwet’en leader arrested for blockading the Coastal GasLink pipeline in 2021. Crown lawyer Kathryn Costain is questioning Sleydo’, also known as Molly Wickham, a wing chief of...

Dakota Tipi First Nation didn’t agree to surrender rights of the land at any time, lawsuit alleges First Peoples Law Report: CBC News – Dakota Tipi First Nation is suing The Forks and three levels of government in the hopes of reinstating ownership of the land and financial compensation tied to the use and management...

French-language advocacy groups argue appointment of Mary Simon violated the Charter of Rights CBC Indigenous: The Quebec Superior Court has ruled that a lawsuit seeking to overturn Governor General Mary Simon’s appointment can move forward and be heard on its merits. Justice Marie-Hélène Dubé dismissed an application by the attorney general of Canada to have...

Nunatsiavut ‘deeply concerned,’ wants Yvonne Jones removed from parliamentary secretary posts CBC Indigenous: The Nunatsiavut government of northern Labrador wants a Liberal MP demoted over “inaccurate comments” she made praising a court ruling concerning NunatuKavut Community Council. Yvonne Jones, who represents Labrador in the House of Commons, was among those celebrating when a Federal Court...

Contested MOU doesn’t recognize NunatuKavut Community Council as having Indigenous rights, judge rules CBC Indigenous The Federal Court has dismissed the Innu Nation’s court challenge against federal recognition of a Labrador group making disputed assertions of Inuit identity. Judge Cecily Y. Strickland on Wednesday rejected the Innu Nation’s application for judicial review of a contested memorandum of understanding...

NationTalk: A delegation of Amnesty International representatives from France, Germany, the United States and Canada will attend the trials of criminalized land defenders from the Wet’suwet’en Nation in Smithers, British Columbia the week of 17 June. The delegates will be there to watch the criminal court proceedings and be in solidarity with the criminalized defenders,...

After the press conference, the Grassy Narrows delegation marched to Queen’s Park to deliver their statement of claim to Premier Doug Ford. However, they were denied entry to the building by the police. Photo by Abdul Matin Sarfraz/National Observer  WE STILL NEED $3,300 TO MAKE OUR BUDGET. WILL YOU CHIP IN? Goal: $100k $96,637 Donate...

Statement of claim alleges that other ministers closed off communications after lawsuit was filed.  Chiefs of Ontario Grand Chief Glen Hare speaks to reporters during a news conference at the Ontario legislature in Toronto.  APTN News: Ontario’s minister of Indigenous affairs “made threats” to the head of the Chiefs of Ontario after notice was given...

B.C. Supreme Court ruling could transform the mining claims system in Canada     Fly camp with Lindquist Peak in the distance on the Deer Horn property, 120 kilometres south of Smithers, B.C. Courtesy of Tony Fogarassy  First People’s Law Report: CIM Magazine – Leaders of the Gitxaała Nation applauded a British Columbia Supreme Court ruling that...

NATHAN VANDERKLIPPEINTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT NELSON, B.C. FOR SUBSCRIBERS The Globe and Mail: PUBLISHED YESTERDAY UPDATED 4 HOURS AGO A U.S. Indigenous group has established a formal presence in British Columbia and is pushing for government recognition and funding, two years after a Canadian Supreme Court ruling declared it “an Aboriginal people of Canada.” The office of the Sinixt...

Lead plaintiff calls allegations ‘disturbing’ CBC Indigenous: Indigenous civil servants are seeking Federal Court certification for a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging systemic racism and chronic toxicity at the Canadian government’s on-reserve oil and gas agency. The plaintiffs filed a batch of affidavits last month, detailing allegations of pervasive bullying, discrimination, harassment and intimidation at Indian Oil...

“We have certainly the better side of the litigation and it’s unfortunate that that the MNC had to, without the need to, bring these grievances in the form of litigation…” — Rahool Agarwal, legal counsel for the Manitoba Métis Federation At right is the Métis National Council President Cassidy Caron, and at left is David...

Aboriginal Rights as a Tool of Colonialism: Part TwoBy Bruce McIvorYou can read Part One of Aboriginal Rights as a Tool of Colonialism here.  The Constitution Act, 1982 held the promise of a new day for the recognition of Indigenous rights. Section 35 recognized and affirmed the existing Aboriginal and treaty rights of Aboriginal people. But when the...

Province in ‘open water’ on competing First Nations-Métis claims, appeal court holds CBC News: The Algonquin Nation is free to sue the Ontario government over the 2017 recognition of Métis communities on unceded Algonquin territory, the province’s top court has ruled. In a unanimous decision rendered Thursday, the Ontario Court of Appeal rejected a bid...

A judge rejected Ottawa’s arguments that such a case must be heard in federal court CBC News: Quebec Superior Court has the jurisdiction to hear a case calling on Gov. Gen. Mary Simon to be removed from her post because she cannot speak French, according to a Quebec Superior Court judge.  The Attorney General of...