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 …
On December 4, 2024, amendments to the Community Care and Recovery Act within Bill 223 received Royal Assent in the Ontario legislature. This move, made without expert or public consultation, will significantly impact the operation of Supervised Consumption Sites (also known as Safe Consumption Sites, or SCSs) in Ontario and, by extension, the safety of …
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This investigation was done in collaboration with ICT (formerly Indian Country Today), presenting data obtained from the First Nation and Inuit Health Branch of Indigenous Services Canada (FNIHBISC) for 2024. Read ICT’s story. Natalya Kate Chaylene Keeshig-Lisk was born in the spring of 2000, at the start of an Indigenous baby boom that swept through …
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How do Risk Assessment processes contribute to the overrepresentation of Indigenous people in Canada’s criminal justice system?
In 2019, an engagement process took place to discuss restoration of the place name of Dagin Giids Llnagaay, briefly known as Queen Charlotte Municipal Village. In this brief, McGuire analyzes and responds to the onslaught of racism present throughout the public engagement and its consequences.
Following the murder of Kristian Ayoungman, Robert Houle and Dallas Hunt analyze disturbing trends in violence against Indigenous people by the hands of settler Canadians, and the seeming impossibilities of justice.
Based in the Faculty of Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University.