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Our latest analysis of Indigenous rights.
Indigenous Self-Determination & Canada’s National Parks
November 28 2024
By Kate Gunn and Caitlin Stockwell
In Brief: New Tool for Enforcing Indigenous Laws
August 22 2024
By Michael Davidson
Holding the Crown to Account: Restoule v. Ontario
August 1 2024
By Kate Gunn
Supreme Court of Canada Restoule Decision Released
July 26 2024
By First Peoples Law LLP
Indigenous Sovereignty at the Supreme Court: Case Comment on Dickson v. Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation
April 18 2024
By Kate Gunn
In Brief: Thomas v. Rio Tinto Alcan Inc., 2024 BCCA 62
March 21 2024
By Kate Gunn
Just released! Indigenous Peoples and the Law in Canada: Cases and Commentary 2024
February 22 2024
By Kate Gunn and Cody O'Neil
The Troubling Basis for the Supreme Court’s Child Welfare Law Decision
February 12 2024
By Bruce McIvor
Reframing Aboriginal Rights: R. c. Montour
January 18 2024
By Kate Gunn and Cody O'Neil
2023 Indigenous Rights Year in Review
January 4 2024
By First Peoples Law LLP
Indigenous Rights and Marine Spaces: Chippewas of Nawash v. Canada
November 30 2023
By Kate Gunn
Treaty Rights at the Supreme Court of Canada: Restoule Appeal
November 2 2023
By Kate Gunn and Cody O'Neil
Limitations Legislation and Treaty Rights at the Supreme Court
October 26 2023
By First Peoples Law LLP
Aboriginal Rights as a Tool of Colonialism
September 29 2023
By Bruce McIvor
Aboriginal Rights as a Tool of Colonialism: Part Four
September 29 2023
By Bruce McIvor
Aboriginal Rights as a Tool of Colonialism: Part Three
September 28 2023
By Bruce McIvor
Aboriginal Rights as a Tool of Colonialism: Part Two
September 27 2023
By Bruce McIvor
Aboriginal Rights as a Tool of Colonialism: Part One
September 26 2023
By Bruce McIvor
Reconciliation and Aboriginal Title: Case Comment on The Nuchatlaht v British Columbia
July 27 2023
By Kate Gunn and Nico McKay
The Way It Is – Our Growing and Necessary Re-Connection to Indigenous Laws
June 1 2023
By Tumia Knott, spaləl̕
Now What? Next Steps for Uprooting the Doctrine of Discovery
April 13 2023
By Kate Gunn and Bruce McIvor
Initial Thoughts on Today's Announcement from the Catholic Church
March 30 2023
By Bruce McIvor
In Brief: Jim Shot Both Sides, et al. v. His Majesty the King
March 16 2023
By Kate Gunn and Tyler Swan
200 Years of Denial: Johnson v. M’Intosh and the Doctrine of Discovery
March 2 2023
By Bruce McIvor
The Alberta “Sovereignty” Act and Indigenous Jurisdiction
February 2 2023
By Kate Gunn and Cody O'Neil
Hot off the Press! Indigenous Peoples and the Law in Canada 2023
January 19 2023
By Kate Gunn, Geneva Lloyd and Cody O'Neil
Indigenous Rights 2022 Year in Review
January 5 2023
By Kate Gunn and Bruce McIvor
Indigenous Hunting Rights and the NRTA: Case Comment on R. v. Green
December 1 2022
By Kate Gunn and Nisha Sikka
Indigenous Jurisdiction and Bill C-92 at the Supreme Court of Canada
October 26 2022
By Kate Gunn
Indigenous Jurisdiction and the Charter at the Supreme Court: Dickson v. Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation
August 3 2022
By Kate Gunn
Consent, Indigenous Rights and the Tahltan Agreement
July 6 2022
By Kate Gunn
Denouncing Denial: BC’s New Directives on Civil Litigation Involving Indigenous Peoples
May 25 2022
By Kate Gunn and Nico McKay
Apply Now: Introduction to the Defence of Indigenous Rights
April 20 2022
By First Peoples Law LLP
The Cost of Denial: Case Comment on Anderson v. Alberta
April 13 2022
By Kate Gunn
Hot off the Press! Annotated Aboriginal Law 2022
February 2 2022
By First Peoples Law LLP
Whose Rule of Law? Case Comment on CN Rail v. Doe
January 26 2022
By Kate Gunn
Indigenous Rights Year in Review
January 5 2022
By Bruce McIvor
Advance Costs and Indigenous Rights at the Supreme Court
November 9 2021
By Kate Gunn
Made of Sterner Stuff—The Problem with Allies
September 29 2021
By Bruce McIvor
Residential Schools and Reconciliation: A Canada Day Proposal
June 16 2021
By Bruce McIvor
Who are the ‘Aboriginal Peoples of Canada’?: Case Comment on R. v. Desautel
May 27 2021
By Bruce McIvor
Footing the Bill: The Supreme Court Weighs in on the Costs of Indigenous Rights Litigation
April 15 2021
By Kate Gunn and Bruce McIvor
A Monument to Indigenous & Environmental Racism: BC Doubles Down on Site C Dam
March 3 2021
By Kate Gunn and Bruce McIvor
Indigenous Law & Canadian Courts
January 20 2021
By Kate Gunn and Cody O'Neil
Indigenous Rights Year in Review
January 6 2021
By Bruce McIvor
Decolonizing Justice: Case Comment on R. v. Turtle
November 18 2020
By Angela D'Elia Decembrini
Who are the ‘Aboriginal peoples’ of Canada?
October 21 2020
By Bruce McIvor
The Marshall Decision and Mi’kmaq Commercial Fishing Rights: An Explainer
October 8 2020
By Angela D'Elia Decembrini
Open Letter to Prime Minister Trudeau and Premier McNeil Re: Sipekne’katik Treaty-Based Fishery
October 1 2020
Righting the Wrongs of Colonization?: Cases to Watch at the Supreme Court of Canada
September 9 2020
By Kate Gunn