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Heritage Conservation Act (HCA) Transformation Project
"cultural heritage resource" means an object, a site or the location of a traditional societal practice that is of historical, cultural or...
Law
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Harry Daniels: The Man Who Put Métis in the Constitution
Harry Daniels will share with Louis Riel the honor of having introduced the rights of the Métis people in the Constitution of Canada: Riel in s. 31...
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Forestry After Tsilhqot'in
Did anyone notice that the Province didn’t officially respond to Tsilhqot’in until September 11, 2014? Why? Things have changed in a way that is hard...
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Can Indigenous Peoples Hunt in National Parks?
This is a commonly asked question so we did some research to find the answer and found all sorts of interesting information about the history of...
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Haida Nation v. British Columbia
Haida Nation v. British Columbia (Minister of Forests)[1]– Supreme Court of Canada, 2004 The Haida case is significant because a unanimous Supreme...
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Calder Case
For many years, the Government of Canada refused even to entertain the concept of Aboriginal title. That policy mountain moved in 1973, shortly after...
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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...
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Tsilhqot'in Decision Q&A with Robert Janes JFK Law: Part 1
The Supreme Court of Canada’s Tsilhqot’in Decision reverberated through First Nation communities, leaders, resource developers, provincial and...
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Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982
In 1982, the Government of Canada patriated the Canadian Constitution, and in so doing, formally entrenched Aboriginal and treaty rights in the...