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October 10, 2024


Opaskwayak Cree Nation files suit over 2019 toxic fluid leak

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...

May 28, 2024


Two more First Nations sue three levels of government for treating Red, Assiniboine rivers ‘as part of the sewage system’

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...

May 1, 2024


Manitoba First Nations seek billions in damages over Winnipeg sewage spill

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...

April 24, 2024


Peguis First Nation launches $1B flood damages lawsuit against feds, province and 2 municipalities

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...

December 6, 2023


Manitoba Hydro dams caused decades of harm to Mathias Colomb Cree Nation, lawsuit alleges

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...