Exploring Theme: "Court Cases"

Members of the Tiny House Warriors display red dresses and cloth to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls along the perimeter of a camp that once housed 550 Trans Mountain pipeline workers in Secwepemcúl’ecw in Blue River, B.C., in April 2022. Photo: Aaron Hemens, Local Journalism Initiative.  APTN News: The sentencing for four...

Shaylynn Sampson says police dropped her cedar headband on the ground CBC Indigenous: A woman who was arrested at a blockade of construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline told court Thursday that her time at the camp was “joyful.” Shaylynn Sampson, a Gitxsan woman with Wet’suwet’en family ties, was questioned by defence lawyer Frances Mahon...

Creepy radio transmission of children singing played in court  The Tyee: The abuse of process application brought by a Wet’suwet’en leader and members of a blockade who were found guilty of criminal contempt of court for stopping work on the Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline was back in court on Tuesday.  The application began in January for Sleydo’,...

NationTalk: BLUEBERRY RIVER FIRST NATIONS, BC – Blueberry River First Nations (Blueberry) has filed a Notice of Civil Claim (NOCC) against the Province of British Columbia (the Province) in order to protect Blueberry’s Treaty rights and enforce the Province’s constitutional, fiduciary and contractual obligations. In January 2023, Blueberry and the Province reached an historic agreement...

Chief invoked Wet’suwet’en law for protecting land and water against Coastal GasLink  CBC News: A Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief will serve a 60-day jail sentence under house arrest for disrupting pipeline construction through Wet’suwet’en traditional territory in northern British Columbia in October 2021. “A jail sentence is required in this case,” said Justice Michael Tammen as...

Chief says partial win at top court could change dynamic in relationship with resource industries CBC Indigenous: For decades, Stellat’en Chief Robert Michell says his First Nation has been caught in a loop of frustration when demanding change to deal with problems caused by the Kenney Dam. The company which operates both the dam and an associated reservoir...

(Adobe stock photo) First Peoples Law Report: Last month Ktunaxa First Nation responded to Taranis Resources Inc’s lawsuit regarding the Thor copper project near Trout Lake in Ktunaxa’s traditional territory northeast of Nakusp. “The best way for British Columbia to ensure Ktunaxa rights are protected is to receive our free prior and informed consent, which,...

Blueberry River First Nation Chief Judy Desjarlais at signing ceremony for the Blueberry River Implementation Agreement in January. | BC Government  First Peoples Law Report: BIV – Business Intelligence for BC: A legal challenge by Treaty 8 First Nations to an agreement the B.C. government struck with the Blueberry River First Nation is adding to...

The Nuchatlaht sought to claim title to traditional territory. A ruling dealt a blow to coastal First Nations. The Tyee: First Peoples Law Report – In June, the B.C. Supreme Court issued its decision in The Nuchatlaht v. British Columbia. The court held that the Nuchatlaht failed to provide sufficient evidence to establish their claim to Aboriginal...

By Kate Gunn and Nico McKay Last month, the BC Supreme Court issued its decision in The Nuchatlaht v British Columbia. The Court held that the Nuchatlaht failed to provide sufficient evidence to establish their claim to Aboriginal title on the west coast of Vancouver Island. The decision represents a setback both for the Nuchatlaht and for the...

Now that the Blueberry River First Nations have won a historic agreement, they face thousands of wells greenlit by the regulator. NationTalk: The Tyee: When the Blueberry River First Nations took the provincial government to court in March 2015, arguing that cumulative industrial developments had robbed them of their ability to hunt and fish, oil...