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Aboriginal title can be declared over privately-owned land
Friday, November 15, 2024
The six Wolastoqey Nations in New Brunswick recently received a precedent-setting decision in their Aboriginal title claim. In Wolastoqey Nations v New Brunswick…
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Job Posting: Corporate-Commercial Lawyer
OKT is looking for a corporate commercial lawyer for a maternity leave contract. Please see our job posting here.
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Cancellation of Renewable Energy Contracts Disproportionately Hits First Nations and Local Communities
The dust is beginning to settle on the Doug Ford Government’s July 5, 2018 order to cancel 758 renewable energy projects in Ontario. What is emerging…
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BILL C-45: Regulation of Cannabis in Indigenous Communities
*This blog has been updated since it was posted on July 13, 2018 to include a discussion on the Quebec market
BACKGROUND
On June 21, 2018, the Cannabis Act…
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Job Posting: Director, Finance and Administration
Olthuis Kleer Townshend LLP (“OKT”), is Canada’s largest law firm dedicated to advancing the self-determination and success of Indigenous peoples in a wide range of areas of Canadian law. We…
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AMC Wins Unprecedented Discount Hydro Rates for On Reserve Residents
By Senwung Luk and Corey Shefman
On May 1st, 2018, Manitoba’ Public Utilities Board adopted recommendations made by the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (“AMC”) to create a new electricity rate…
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Can Canada recognize what’s been in front of its face for 450 years?
Twenty-two years ago, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples set out a blueprint for recognizing Indigenous self-government and rights in Canada. This blueprint should have given…
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