Dec 14-20, 2020

By Bruce McIvor and Cody O'Neil

This week's edition includes UNDRIP, Treaties, consultation, self-determination, fish farms, grizzly bears and more.

 

IN THE NEWS

BC headlines included man camps, fish farms and grizzly bears

     

     

    A protocol agreement was signed in Treaty 6 territory

     

     

    Consultation, COVID-19 and self-determination topped NWT news

     

     

    The Ring of Fire returned to Ontario headlines

     

     

    Systemic racism remains in the spotlight in Quebec

     

     

    Treaty rights were front and centre in Mi’kma’ki

     

     

    UNDRIP was a hot topic across the country. Here are my own thoughts: A Cold Rain Falls: Canada’s Proposed UNDRIP Legislation by Bruce McIvor

     

     

    QUOTE OF THE WEEK

    "What I've said is that we will never achieve reconciliation when one side to the dialogue sees it as an act of benevolence and one side sees it as a recognition of rights.”

    - Sen. Murray Sinclair

     

    OFF THE BOOKSHELF

    "To a man possessed of the higher imaginative powers, the objection to legal studies is the amount of detail which they involve."

    - Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (1850)

     

    SEE YOU IN 2021!

    This is our last Aboriginal Law Report of 2020. We’ll be back on January 10. Until then, check us out on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn December 26-31 for our “Year in Review” of Indigenous rights.

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    Bruce McIvor, lawyer and historian, is principal of First Peoples Law Corporation. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia’s Allard School of Law where he teaches the constitutional law of Aboriginal and Treaty rights. Bruce is a proud Métis from the Red River in Manitoba. He holds a Ph.D. in Aboriginal and environmental history and is a Fulbright Scholar. A member of the bar in British Columbia and Ontario, Bruce is recognized nationally and internationally as a leading practitioner of Aboriginal law in Canada.
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