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Meaningful Consultation: Happy Days or Project Delays
Recent events in Canada have shown that resource development projects can face extensive resistance from the affected Indigenous communities if...
Indigenous Consultation
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The UN Declaration and Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples in BC
During the 2019 federal election, the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (the Declaration) was included in four (absent from the...
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Indigenous Knowledge and the Question of Copyright
Indigenous Peoples around the world are increasingly concerned about protecting their Indigenous knowledge (IK) and traditional cultural expressions...
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Meaningful Consultation with Indigenous Peoples
The announcement on August 30, 2018, that the Federal Court of Appeal had quashed the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion due, in part, to faulty...
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Building Indigenous Community Capacity and the Duty to Consult
While the duty to consult is a hard-fought-for, constitutionally recognized component of resource project development, in reality, it can be an...
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9 Indigenous Relations Best Practice Must Dos
What constitutes Indigenous relations best practices? Here are a few suggestions for consideration.
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12 Common Mistakes in First Nation Consultation
Consultation with First Nations is a necessary part of doing business on First Nation treaty or traditional land. Most levels of government and...
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Rio Tinto Decision
Rio Tinto v. British Columbia (Chief Inspector of Mines) [1] Supreme Court of Canada, 2010 In the 1950s, the government of BC authorized the building...
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Meares Island Case, 1985
Martin [1], Supreme Court & Court of Appeal of British Columbia 1985 - ongoing Banner of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth First Nations' People, the original...
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Tsilhqot’in Decision Q&A with Robert Janes, JFK Law: Part 2
This is the second in the two-part series of our interview with Robert Janes, JFK Law, and Chair of the “Tsilhqot’in Nation and Recognition of...