BC First Nation ordered to pay woman 160K for wrongful dismissal – CTV
April 8, 2015 VANCOUVER – A longtime employee of a First Nation on Vancouver Island has been awarded nearly $160,000 for being fired without cause and reasonable notice. The Cowichan…
Architect thinks outside the box – Waterloo Record
April 9, 2015 KITCHENER — In a landscape dominated by “meagre boxes,” Douglas Cardinal’s buildings stand out. The celebrated Canadian architect’s works swoop and flow, curve and contort in artistic…
PM Harper failing to fulfill Mulroney’s Oka promise on modern treaties – APTN
April 8, 2015 As the smoke was clearing from the 1990 Oka Crisis, then-prime minister Brian Mulroney wrote to the premiers of the Northwest Territories and the Yukon about the…
Why Bill C-51 is a threat to aboriginal rights – The Globe and Mail
Apr. 08 2015 Matthew Coon Come is the Grand Chief of the Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Istchee) and the Chair of the Cree Nation Government. In January, the…
Can’t get no Dissatisfaction: BC Court Reverses Award of Damages Against Crown for First Nation Blockade – TDS Law
April 8, 2015 On February 26, 2015 the British Columbia Court of Appeal reversed a $1.75 million damage award granted in 2013 to Moulton Contracting Ltd. against the B.C. Government…
NWT government releases proposed fracking regulations for territory – Northern Journal
The territorial government released its own set of proposed rules for companies wanting to hydraulically fracture, or “frack,” for shale oil or gas in the Northwest Territories last Wednesday, exactly…
New Plan Nord to cost $2.7B over 25 years, says minister – CBC
Apr 08, 2015 Province hopes to attract $22B in investments, create thousands of jobs with northern development plan Quebec’s new Plan Nord will cost the province $2.7 billion over 25…
North Slave Metis settle caribou lawsuit with GNWT – Northern Journal
April 6, 2015 The North Slave Métis Alliance (NSMA) says it has begun “a new relationship” with the government of the Northwest Territories following the settlement of a longstanding court…
Jeffrey Simpson in Inside Policy: Progress for Aboriginal peoples still haunted by the past – MLI
April 8, 2015 In some religious traditions, it is customary for a leading figure to deliver a sermon. Often, it revolves around a segment taken from a holy book. I…
Roundtable for leaders of cultural communities – Brantford Expositor
April 7, 2015 Federal Liberal citizenship and immigration critic John McCallum and Brantford-Brant candidate Danielle Takacs will host a roundtable discussion with leaders of the area’s cultural communities at the…
