Aboriginal Law Report

The National Energy Board's Energy East pipeline review was postponed following protests in Montreal and further challenges to the Board's impartiality.

• First day of Energy East hearings in Montreal cancelled after protests
• National Energy Board suspends hearings into Energy East pipeline
• In NEB circus, blame the ringmaster
• NEB member’s business ties to TransCanada Corp. queried

The federal government's consultation panel for the Kinder Morgan pipeline is preparing its report.

• The National Energy Board’s verdict on the Trans Mountain Pipeline is in

In Newfoundland, the Innu disputed government reports on Caribou numbers.

• Innu Nation says N.L. needs to respect caribou hunting culture

The Northwest Territories' first self-governed community came into existence. 

• Deline, N.W.T. prepares to sign historic self-government agreement

In British Columbia, First Nations protested salmon farming.

• First Nation hands eviction notice to Campbell River salmon farm
• Fish farm protest draws hundreds to legislature

In Quebec another headdress controversy erupted on the first day of school.

• Headdress controversy part of 'larger conversation that needs to happen,' First Nations educator says
• 'Inappropriate indigenous costumes' at Outremont school raise ire of parent
• Opinion: Teachers' use of headdress costumes at École Lajoie was a harmful mistake

In northern Manitoba, Indigenous people blocked a road to a hydro dam construction site.

• Cree, Métis trappers and fishers block highway in northern Manitoba

As former Primer Minister Stephen Harper resigned from parliament his legacy was considered.

• Doug Cuthand: Let's hope Conservative party moves past Harper's policies

In the United States, a proposed pipeline continues to draw Indigenous opposition.

• North Dakota oil pipeline protesters stand their ground: 'This is sacred land'

From the Courts

A compost company was granted a temporary injunction allowing them to continue hauling through a British Columbia First Nation's reserve.

• Court orders Lytton First Nation not to blockade road used to access organic composting facility
• Revolution Infrastructure Inc. v. Lytton First Nation, 2016 BCSC 1562

Fisheries charges against a British Columbia First Nation's members were dismissed.

• Sts’ailes News Release

Quote of the Week

"TransCanada will not pass!"

Protester at the National Energy Board's hearings in Montreal

Off the Bookshelf

Treaties "did not transfer to the British sovereign blanket authority to govern First Nations or peoples. They did not grant to anyone any vast executive authority or legislative authority over Treaty First Nations."

James Youngblood Henderson, Treaty Rights in the Constitution of Canada (2007)

Bruce McIvor, lawyer and historian, is principal of First Peoples Law Corporation.  Download Bruce's bio.

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