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...

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...

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...

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...

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...