Cultural Competency

Go to the land and waters to find your first foods…

Links to more than 100 Indigenous social media influencers are now gathered in one place at OpenCanada for this year’s rendition of its annual Twitterati list.

The Advocates’ Society, in partnership with the Indigenous Bar Association and the Law Society of Ontario, has developed the guide for Lawyers Working with Indigenous Peoples. 

When Canadian law treats corporations like people, it’s easy to believe natural features like rivers or mountains deserve similar rights, says a UVic legal scholar. (Victoria Times-Colonist)

In February 2013, the Honourable Frank Iacobucci, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, called the lack of representation of First Nations peoples on juries a problem “of serious proportions” and said the justice system “as applied to First Nations peoples, particularly in the North, is quite frankly in a crisis.”