In Pekuakamiulnuatsh Takuhikan, a majority of the Supreme Court of Canada held that Quebec breached the honour of the Crown in its negotiation of a funding agreement with the government of the Pekuakamiulnuatsh First Nation, and awarded the First Nation damages equal to the amount of the funding deficit created by Quebec’s breach. This case …
Last week the Federal Government released the 2024-2025 budget, with new funding allocations for Indigenous communities. While these allocations are significant and there are even new policy approaches to be found in the budget, chronic shortfalls and the historically paternalistic Crown-Indigenous financial relationship remain.
Bill C-29 holds the potential to fulfill the TRC’s Call to Action to establish a National Council for Reconciliation. But will this Council have the tools necessary to hold the government — and Canadians — accountable?
In this brief, Riley Yesno examines the 2023 federal budget and how it measures up to Indigenous demands.
Hayden King addresses the draft action plan for the United Nations Declaration Act. What possibilities and challenges does this new list of actions present?
In the last Parliament, the Federal Government passed legislation to recognize September 30 as a statutory holiday to observe and learn. Yellowhead has curated here, a list of our own related resources for learning and education on this day and beyond.
Based in the Faculty of Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University.