Exploring Theme: "Court Cases"

Thunderchild First Nation Chief Delbert Wapass speaks at a Dec. 4 press conference organized by the Indian Resource Council of Canada to discuss its bid for the AFN to support a legal challenge to the federal carbon price. Photo by Natasha Bulowski/Canada’s National ObserverListen to article Canada’s National Observer -The federal government could soon face...

APTN News: Dozens of people gathered in communities across Yukon and the Northwest Territories on Wednesday in protest of a court case centred on the Peel watershed. Last year, the territorial government launched a legal petition to overturn a decision by the Yukon Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessment Board (YESAB) after it recommended that a proposed...

A photo of the Nass River, a highway for many Gitanyow salmon. Gitanyow leadership are concerned that those salmon are at risk because of a proposed LNG project, and yet, they remain outside of the scope of its consultation. Photo by Miko Fox / Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)Listen to article Canada’s National Observer:A First Nation...

NationTalk: The Free Press – A Manitoba First Nation has launched a $10-million lawsuit against the paper mill in The Pas after a massive amount of toxic fluid leaked into the river where its residents fish, in 2019. Opaskwayak Cree Nation has filed a claim against Canadian Kraft Paper and the federal and provincial governments...

Kolin Sutherland-Wilson is shown at the legislature in Victoria, Saturday, Feb.8, 2020. Photo by: the Canadian Press/Dirk MeissnerListen to article Canada’s National Observer: A coalition of community groups and a First Nation in Northern British Columbia have launched a court challenge against the BC Energy Regulator (BCER). They say the regulator is bypassing legal requirements...

The concept of personhood for elements of nature is not new.  The Sumas valley in late November 2021 after flooding temporarily turned it back into Sumas Lake. Photo: The City of Abbotsford  APTN News: A First Nation in B.C. likes the idea of restoring Sumas Lake in the southern part of B.C. back to its...

A peaceful rally took place outside the Supreme Court in Ottawa, Ont. in support of Kebaowek First Nation’s judicial review for a nuclear waste storage facility near the Ottawa River. Photo by Eagleclaw Thom Listen to article Canada’s National Observer: A First Nation concerned about approval of a nuclear waste disposal facility near the Ottawa River...

First Peoples Law Report: North Renfrew Times – The Algonquin community challenging the Near Surface Disposal Facility (NSDF) at Chalk River has launched a fundraising campaign to support its legal case. The Kebaowek First Nation filed an application for a judicial review of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission’s decision to approve construction of the NSDF...

Posted: 5:27 PM CDT Monday, May. 27, 2024 Last Modified: 1:25 PM CDT Tuesday, May. 28, 2024  First Peoples Law Report: The Free Press – Two Manitoba First Nations have added their names to a list of Indigenous communities suing the City of Winnipeg, the province and the federal government, claiming $1 billion in damages for sewage...

Fish farms on the coast are being blamed for the decline in Fraser River salmon. Submitted photo.  APTN News: The Canadian Press – A First Nation in British Columbia says it has lost faith in federal plans to remove open net-pens from the province’s ocean salmon farms and is reluctantly relaunching legal action it had on hold...

Massive February spill into Red River caused signifcant harms for downstream communities: lawsuit CBC News: Eight Manitoba First Nations have filed a lawsuit against the City of Winnipeg, as well as the provincial and federal governments, seeking billions of dollars in compensation for a massive sewage spill earlier this year. A pipe in south Winnipeg burst...

Angela Davidson, also known as Rainbow Eyes, was convicted in January of seven counts of criminal contempt for breaching a court injunction and later her bail conditions. Photo by Glenn Reid Listen to article Canada’s National Observer: The Canadian Press– OTTAWA — The Green Party is decrying a 60-day sentence handed to its deputy leader today...

First Nation, forcibly displaced in 1907, claims government failed to provide safe place to live CBC News: Peguis First Nation has filed a $1-billion flood-damages lawsuit against the federal government, the provincial government and two municipalities located upstream of the Ojibway and Cree community in Manitoba’s northern Interlake. In a statement of claim filed before...

Damages inflicted by 2 Laurie River hydro dams ‘happen every day,’ lawyer alleges First Peoples Law Report: CBC News: A northern Manitoba First Nation is suing the province and Manitoba Hydro over two dams it says have been damaging their lands and violating their treaty rights for more than 50 years. Mathias Colomb Cree Nation...