Sentences with phrase «on aboriginal issues»

LU Law would focus on aboriginal issues and offer a work / study program.

Not exact matches

If aboriginal people in this region are ever to progress at the rate expected by politicians and others it is essential that they have the ability to be both economocally and culturally «independent» of those who claim to know best how to address the issues but really have no prolonged on the ground experience.

The two were also agreed that larger national discussions need to be held around climate change, economic development and accommodation of aboriginal rights and title — and that LNG development should be seen as an opportunity to move on these issues.

The memo was obtained by The Canadian Press and it criticizes the Trudeau government in several areas: For too quickly rejecting U.S. proposals, for insisting on negotiating alongside Mexico, and for promoting progressive priorities like labour, gender, aboriginal and environmental issues.

While the issue of a low representation of aboriginals in science has not impacted negatively on my decision to pursue a science career, there still exists the possibility that a lack of role models and underrepresentation of aboriginal people in scientific fields could impact negatively on the decisions of future generations of aboriginal youth.

In this presentation, Lisa reviewed the current state of regulation on aboriginal healing and medicine and discussed key issues for regulators and aboriginal communities in developing regulation.

The issue centres on the team's logo, Chief Wahoo, a red - skinned cartoon head with a toothy grin and a feathered headband considered to be a caricature of an aboriginal man, combined with the name Indians.

She said it is «time for the tide to turn» on issues such as poverty, education, basic infrastructure and «a justice system that really isn't working all that well for aboriginal communities,» as the NDP has watched as these challenges are put off for another day «time and again.»

The Indian Act is not the only legislation specific to aboriginal people — the First Nations Land Management Act (SC 1999) provides a framework for First Nations to develop regimes for resource development, succession, and other important issues; the First Nations Fiscal Management Act (SC 2005) prescribes certain reporting requirements with respect to real property taxation; and the recently passed Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act (SC 2013) seeks to provide protections to parties living on reserves in the context of family breakdown.

Frankly, given that most of the other countries in the world (i) are either governed by their aboriginal populations, (ii) have succesfully killed them off or assimilated them into their broader population, or (iii) will just ignore anything the UN says anyhow, I'm not too inclined too give much weight to what they have to say on the issue.

As the chair in Indigenous Governance and academic director of the Centre for Indigenous Governance at Ryerson, she has had a huge impact on aboriginal governance issues.

He is also a regular speaker at conferences and law schools on aboriginal legal issues.

«Thanks to the federal government, who has done nothing on this issue other than pass the Indian Act, there is no over-arching legislation that provides certainty in relation to acquisition of consent, unless the band and the collective self - identify,» said Charles Willms, chairman of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP's Vancouver aboriginal law practice, speaking at the panel, Key Legal Cases in Canada: The Current Landscape.

He has acted on the plaintiff's side of class actions involving securities, pharmaceuticals, insurance products, medical devices, product liability, and aboriginal issues.

Banking, finance, energy, oil and gas, communications, telecommunications, aviation, insurance companies and First Nations, among others, all rely on our lawyers for authoritative advice on Charter of Rights and Freedoms, aboriginal rights and federalism issues.

While Gregory Kennedy eventually abandoned the application over the lack of aboriginals on the jury after conceding he couldn't meet the threshold for challenging the array in Form 40, Goodman went ahead and ruled on the issue anyway given the issue's «significant import to the administration of justice.»

Ontario has been considering the issue of aboriginal issues on jury panels in recent years given a number of high - profile cases that indicated the provincial government's lax approach to the matter.

In 2017, we look forward to working on climate change issues that intersect with aboriginal rights and title.

GERLEP not only caters to students seeking experience in the traditional environmental or resources law opportunities, such as an environmental NGO or government agency, but also appeals to students interested in corporate social responsibility, aboriginal legal issues, and other areas that touch on the environment and resources development.

«There are two big issues the government is going to have to issue guidance on and I suspect it's quite likely that guidance will at some point be debated in the courts,» says Martin Ignasiak, a partner with the environment, regulatory, and aboriginal group at Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP in Calgary.

In particular, Closner has worked on a few projects aiming to develop joint venture agreements with aboriginal entities in America that primarily involved working with various financial institutions to help customers with financing issues, in order to get a project under way.