Featured Post
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…
Blog
Supreme Court of Canada releases its decision interpreting the Robinson Huron and Robinson Superior Annuities provision in Ontario (Attorney General) v Restoule
Friday, July 26, 2024
The Supreme Court of Canada released a unanimous decision today in Ontario (Attorney General) v Restoule, 2024 SCC 27, finding that Canada and Ontario had breached…
Read More...
Historic $47.8 Billion Agreement Will Transform First Nations Child and Family Services
Friday, July 12, 2024
On Thursday, July 11, the Assembly of First Nations, Chiefs of Ontario, Nishnawbe Aski Nation, and Indigenous Services Canada announced a $47.8 billion…
OKT Podcast - United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Is UNDRIP going to bring about transformational change to the relationship between Canada and Indigenous peoples? What about the federal government’s implementing legislation?
In this episode,…
Read More...
Supreme Court applies Charter to Indigenous Governments, but protects “Indigenous difference"
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Dickson v Vuntut Gwitchin interprets the relationship between individual Charter rights and freedoms, and Indigenous collective rights.1 A majority of…
Read More...
Historic Agreement Recognizes Haida Title to Haida Gwaii
Friday, April 19, 2024
On April 14, 2024, the Haida Nation and the Province of British Columbia signed the Gaayhllxid/Gíihlagalgang “Rising Tide” Haida Title Lands Agreement. This Agreement recognizes…
Read More...
UNDRIP is now part of Canada’s “domestic positive law”. What does this mean?
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Seventeen years after the UN General Assembly passed the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (“UNDRIP”), and eight years after Canada endorsed…
Read More...