Government moves forward with panel to strengthen child intervention
Press Release Members have been selected for a panel that will explore ways to improve Alberta’s child intervention system. The Ministerial Panel on Child Intervention will make recommendations to improve…
China Minerals Reports Court Decision
Press Release China Minerals Mining Corporation (“China Minerals” or the “Company”) (TSX-V: CMV, US: HWTHF) reports that the BC Supreme Court has declined to hear its judicial review on the…
Meetings to help with claim form for Labrador Residential Schools Class Action
Press Release 18 January 2017, Steven Cooper will be in a number of communities to meet with class members of the Labrador Residential Schools Class Action. He will assist those…
Media Advisory – January 25th Injunction Against Transcanada Pipelines Put Off: Summary Judgement To Be Sought In Next Few Months
Press Release TORONTO, Jan. 17, 2017 – The injunction motion brought by Aroland First Nation and Ginoogaming First Nation against TransCanada Pipelines to prevent its imminent integrity digs and other…
Lawsuit and injunction application brought by First Nations in Ontario against TransCanada Pipelines for work on the same line to be converted for the Energy East project
Press Release TORONTO, Jan. 9, 2017 – Two First Nations in northwest Ontario – Aroland and Ginoogaming – have just launched a precedent-setting lawsuit and injunction motion against TransCanada Pipelines,…
Canadian Forces face racial discrimination and harassment class action
Press Release HALIFAX, Dec. 21, 2016 – Systemic racial discrimination and harassment are the basis of a class action filed in the Federal Court by Stewart McKelvey on behalf of…
Child and Youth Advocate releases annual report
Press Release Edmonton…Del Graff, Provincial Child and Youth Advocate, released the 2013-14 Annual Report of the Office of the Child and Youth Advocate (OCYA). “The Annual Report provides a summary…
LEAF Intervenes in Gehl v Attorney General
Press Release December 20, 2016 – Today, the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) intervenes before the Ontario Court of Appeal in Gehl v Attorney General of Canada, a…
UBCIC Congratulates the Huu-ay-aht First Nation on Resolution of 68-Year-Old Logging Rights Case
Press Release (Coast Salish Territory/Vancouver, B.C. – December 16, 2016) Sixty-eight years after the Huu-ay-aht First Nation first challenged Canada’s unlawful issuance of a long-term logging licence on the community’s…
On 5 December 2016, the Bigstone Cree Nation filed for leave to appeal the Governor in Council’s 28 October 2016 decision to approve Nova Gas Transmission Ltd.’s 2017 NGTL System Expansion Project. The Board provided its assessment and recommendation in the GH-002-2015 National Energy Board Report
Press Release The NEB operates within a system of checks and balances. Our decisions are subject to independent and impartial judicial oversight, generally through the Federal Court of Appeal and…
