‘The Gloves Are Off’: Residential School Day Students Launch Lawsuit
Scholars left out of 2006 settlement’s ‘common experience’ compensation seek redress.
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Tsilhqot’in pledge Supreme Court challenge after landmark title ruling
Only one thing is certain from the latest chapter in the Tsilhqot’in nation’s decades-old B.C. court struggle: the legal battle will continue.
Native Exclusion From Hunting and Fishing Panel a ‘Hard Pill to Swallow’: First Nations
In the wake of Bill C-38′s budgetary gutting of the environmental review process, indigenous fisheries experts in Canada are decrying their exclusion from a new federal panel for anglers and hunters.
Photo: Jason Kenney tells war veteran daughter: soldiers were “heroes,” but not Canadian citizens
Citizenship Minister Jason Kenney told Jackie Scott, the daughter of a Canadian war veteran, that her father – and others serving the country – technically weren’t Canadian at the time they were fighting for their country. Photo by David P. Ball
Métis lawyer Robyn Gervais wins civil liberties award
The Métis lawyer who made headlines when she resigned in protest from the job of Aboriginal counsel at B.C.’s missing women inquiry has been awarded the province’s top civil liberties award.
Missing Women Inquiry Hearings End Amid Cover-Up Charges From Victims’ Families
Eight months after they began, hearings into why police failed to catch serial killer Robert Pickton sooner ended much as they began: with families and aboriginal groups protesting outside.
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip on Bill C-38: It’s time to ‘take this to the streets’
In the wake of the omnibus budget bill’s passage, a B.C. indigenous leader calls C-38 an “absolute attack on democracy” – warning that resistance will “play out on the streets and at the barricades.”
Missing women inquiry ends in outrage: ‘We need more answers, what really happened?’
Michele Pineault’s daughter was killed on Robert Pickton’s farm, one of Canada’s 600 missing and murdered Native women. She spoke with the Left Coast Post at a closure ceremony on Wednesday.
Harper v. Canada: 2011 election scandal brings scrutiny to PM’s controversial past
Prime Minister Harper spent years mired in a court case titled “Harper v. Canada” to challenge the country’s election regulations.
Memory engineering pioneer Elizabeth Loftus charts course for Inception-style mind control
After 44 years of ground-breaking research on how human memory works, inception is precisely the area that memory expert Dr. Elizabeth Loftus is pioneering today.
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