This week’s edition includes jurisdiction, child-family services, class actions, law reform and more.
IN THE NEWS
National news included emergency management, language revitalization, class actions and systemic racism
As disasters mount, First Nations' safety has never been more pressing: Woodhouse | CTV News
Canada should provide Indigenous languages with constitutional protection | The Conversation
Day school settlement has paid out $5.7B in claims. A Supreme Court petition says survivors were shortchanged | CBC News
After 5 years, Oneida still has no clean water. Why a class action settlement could be a 'relief' | CBC News
Eleven communities ask Canada to halt release of flawed stats | Sask Today
Law reform, a legal action, jurisdiction over child welfare and UNDRIP topped BC headlines
Indigenous mineral interests protected as province modernizes mineral tenure act | Comox Valley Record
West Moberly First Nation 'disheartened and frustrated' by reactions to Land Act amendments | Yahoo! News
First Nations Call for Protection of Bear Dens via Immediate Provincial Legislation and Support for First Nations Legal Orders | UBCIC
Haíɫzaqv takes legal action against 'Canada' after DFO shut down nation's herring fishery | IndigiNews
Despite delays from ‘Canada,’ Sts’ailes is taking back control over its own child welfare | IndigiNews
Local First Nations back Vancouver plan to eliminate park board - BC | Global News
Alberta and Saskatchewan news featured a lawsuit to defend Treaty rights and economic development
Legal action launched by First Nation following three wastewater discharges by Kearl Oil | Windspeaker
First Nation sues Alberta Energy Regulator over tailings leaks from oilsands mine | CBC News
Treaty 6 creating a revenue sharing model for Alberta’s consideration | Windspeaker
The judicial system and a cows and plows claim were front and centre in Manitoba
Frustrations raised concerning province's plan for bail system | CityNews
Manitoba First Nations community clears final hurdle in $200M 'cows and plows' settlement with feds to right century-old wrong | Penticton Herald
Wally Firth’s legacy is remembered in the Northwest Territories
Wally Firth, N.W.T.'s first Indigenous MP, remembered as a humble trailblazer | CBC News
Tributes continue for Wally Firth, an unsung Northern trailblazer | CKLB Radio
Ontario and Quebec headlines included mining, the Ring of Fire, environmental protection and child-family services
Province shuts down Chiefs of Ontario's request for a moratorium on staking mining claims | CBC News
Two First Nations sign Ring of Fire agreement as another launches court battle | The Trillium
Akwesasne residents have concerns about proposed hydrogen facility in N.Y. state | CBC News
First Nations in northwestern Ontario taking ownership of child-family services on road to federal reform | CBC News
FROM THE COURTS
The Ontario Court of Appeal weighed in on treaty interpretation and the honour of the Crown
Fletcher v. Ontario, 2024 ONCA 148
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
As long as this situation continues to exist with the very first citizens of this land being the very poorest in their homeland, I fail to understand how one in this country can say, “I am proud to be a Canadian.”
- Member of Parliament Wally Firth, House of Commons Debates, January 1973
OFF THE BOOKSHELF
She says Mom does the emotional work for the whole family, feeling everything ten times harder than is necessary so the rest of us can act normal.
- Miriam Toews, Fight Night (2021)
