Exploring Theme: "Judicial"

Chief Dsta’hyl of the Wet’suwet’en Nation, who is under house arrest, appears via video conference at an Amnesty International press conference in Ottawa, on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Photo by: The Canadian Press/Justin Tang Listen to article Canada’s National Observer: The Canadian Press – Amnesty International called for the release of a First Nations chief who is...

NationTalk: Nova Scotia (Attorney General) v. Joyce 2023 NSCA 9 January 17, 2024: The Respondents, four Mi’kmaq members of the Native Council of Nova Scotia, whose rights to hunt and harvest were arbitrarily and without meaningful consultation, stripped from them and others who already exercised established rights. In doing so, the respondents claim the Province...

NationTalk: BELLA BELLA, BRITISH COLUMBIA – Heiltsuk Horizon is welcoming a Federal Court of Appeal ruling that allows a judicial review of a complaint the company filed against the federal procurement process to acquire two emergency towing vessels meant to protect BC’s coast against marine oil spills and other maritime accidents, as part of Canada’s Oceans...

Union of BC Indian Chiefs – UBCIC marks the 24th anniversary of the Supreme Court of Canada’s ground-breaking Delgamuukw-Gisday’wa decision, which confirmed the continuing existence of the Wet’suwet’en and Gitxsan Title and Rights, contrary to provincial claims that their Title, if it had existed, had been extinguished. On December 11, 1997 the six members of...

Toronto Star – Fifteen people, including Indigenous elders, media and legal observers, had been arrested by the afternoon, according to Jennifer Wickham, a spokesperson for the hereditary chiefs and their supporters. Wickham stressed they had been acting peacefully. Wickham said armed RCMP officers in tactical gear with canine units and heavy machinery moved into the...

Union of BC Indian Chiefs – RCMP began aggressively raiding Wet’suwet’en traditional and unceded territories under the watch of the Provincial and Federal Governments. Chief Don Tom, Vice-President of the UBCIC concluded “Using armed force to take Indigenous peoples off their unceded and traditional territories against their will is not reconciliation, it is colonialism in...