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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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What if Canada held coast-to-coast environmental review hearings and nobody came?
The Environmental Assessment Expert Panel that the Government of Canada assembled to independently review Canada’s environmental assessment laws has now begun public hearings. The hearings are…
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Rethinking legal education - the Anishnaabe Law Camp
OKT is proud to announce the firm’s sponsorship and ongoing support for the ground-breaking annual Anishinaabe Law Camp organized by Osgoode Hall Law School and the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation.
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Canada Ordered to Stop Discriminating Against First Nations Children, For the Third Time
Today, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal released a decision in the ongoing case First Nations Child and Family Caring Society et al v. Canada, in which the…
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Urgent: Funding deadline approaching for Indigenous communities who want to make representations to federal Environmental Assessment Review Expert Panel
Funding is available for Indigenous communities to participate in the Government of Canada’s review of its environmental review processes, but time is running out to apply.
What First Nation-Owned Businesses Need to Know About Collecting GST/HST
When does Canadian law require First Nations-owned businesses on reserve to collect GST/HST?
When it comes to First Nation-owned businesses, what is involved and required in GST/HST registration and reporting…
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