Windspeaker.comApr 15, 2024

It’s not over by any stretch of the imagination, but the Blood Tribe has inched closer to resolution of its ‘Big Claim’ with a Supreme Court of Canada declaration.

The top court in the Shot Both Sides v. Canada decision clearly says the tribe was shorted 162.5 square miles of reserve land promised in the making of Treaty 7, as the Blood Tribe has been asserting since the 1970s.

#Indigenous #FirstNations #SCOC #courts #law #Canada #BloodTribe

https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/blood-tribe-big-claim-time-barred-supreme-court-provides-declaration-crowns

Blood Tribe ‘Big Claim’ time-barred, but Supreme Court provides declaration in Crown’s ‘dishonourable’ conduct

The Supreme Court of Canada has helped to restore the honour of the Crown by issuing a declaration in the Blood Tribe’s ‘Big Claim’ on April 12. The claim asserts that Canada shorted the Blood Tribe, located in southern Alberta, 162.5 square miles of reserve land promised at the time Treaty 7 was made in 1877.

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Show threadAmgineApr 14, 2024

#SCOC case: https://www.scc-csc.ca/case-dossier/cb/2024/40153-eng.aspx

IANAL, but as I understand it, the #Canadian gov't made this treaty directly with the tribes, in lands it directly controlled as part of the #NWT, in a Nation-to-Nation treaty.

It appears to me the Federal & International law are the law governing this case. Not #AB provincial law (although that may be in play based on where the case was brought, in which case my outrage is misplaced, though the Tribe may have been required by the laws in place in 1982.

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AmgineApr 14, 2024

#CBC: #Canada broke its #treaty promise, but Blood Tribe is barred from suing, Supreme Court rules

Many #journalism errors in this article; one might assume it was intentional.

The #BloodTribe signed #Treaty7 in 1877. They never got the land promised. #SupremeCourtofCanada #SCOC says province of #Alberta statute of limitations applies.

#AB was not a province until 1905.

#UNDRIP has been law since 21 June 2021. Has SCOC forgotten?

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#cdnpoli #news #indigenous

Canada broke its treaty promise, but Blood Tribe is barred from suing, Supreme Court rules

Canada acted dishonourably by breaching its treaty obligations to the Blood Tribe in Alberta, but the band is barred from suing by the province’s statute of limitations, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.

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Windspeaker.comMar 28, 2024

The Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation has a Supreme Court of Canada decision that upholds its rule that elected chief and councillors must reside on its settlement lands in the remote community of Old Crow, Yukon.

That rule was challenged by member Cindy Dickson, who took her Charter of Rights and Freedoms challenge under sec. 15 all the way up to the top court only to be dismissed by the majority.

https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/mixed-bag-opinion-supreme-court-justices-vuntut-gwitchin-residency-rule

#Indigenous #FirstNation #SCOC #justice #rights

A mixed bag of opinion from Supreme Court justices, but Vuntut Gwitchin residency rule prevails

Today the Supreme Court of Canada decided the case known as Cindy Dickson v. Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation (VGFN), and while the First Nation can claim an ultimate victory, the decision comes with dissenting opinions on the appeal questions considered. Cindy Dickson wanted to run for a position on VGFN council, but she came up against a requirement under the Vuntut Gwitchin’s constitution that she just couldn’t agree to.

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Global News EdmontonMar 21, 2024
Supreme Court ends long-running legal spat over prayer at Calgary private school
The Supreme Court of Canada says it won't hear the latest appeal from the non-denominational Webber Academy.
#globalnews #Canada #Calgaryprivateschool #Schoolprayerroom #SCOC
https://globalnews.ca/news/10375507/supreme-court-ends-long-running-legal-spat-over-prayer-at-calgary-private-school/
Supreme Court ends long-running legal spat over prayer at Calgary private school

The Supreme Court of Canada says it won't hear the latest appeal from the non-denominational Webber Academy.

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Global News LethbridgeMar 21, 2024
Supreme Court ends long-running legal spat over prayer at Calgary private school
The Supreme Court of Canada says it won't hear the latest appeal from the non-denominational Webber Academy.
#globalnews #Canada #Calgaryprivateschool #Schoolprayerroom #SCOC
https://globalnews.ca/news/10375507/supreme-court-ends-long-running-legal-spat-over-prayer-at-calgary-private-school/
Supreme Court ends long-running legal spat over prayer at Calgary private school

The Supreme Court of Canada says it won't hear the latest appeal from the non-denominational Webber Academy.

Global News
Global NewsMar 21, 2024
Supreme Court ends long-running legal spat over prayer at Calgary private school
The Supreme Court of Canada says it won't hear the latest appeal from the non-denominational Webber Academy.
#globalnews #Canada #Calgaryprivateschool #Schoolprayerroom #SCOC
https://globalnews.ca/news/10375507/supreme-court-ends-long-running-legal-spat-over-prayer-at-calgary-private-school/
Supreme Court ends long-running legal spat over prayer at Calgary private school

The Supreme Court of Canada says it won't hear the latest appeal from the non-denominational Webber Academy.

Global News
Global News CalgaryMar 21, 2024
Supreme Court ends long-running legal spat over prayer at Calgary private school
The Supreme Court of Canada says it won't hear the latest appeal from the non-denominational Webber Academy.
#globalnews #Canada #Calgaryprivateschool #Schoolprayerroom #SCOC
https://globalnews.ca/news/10375507/supreme-court-ends-long-running-legal-spat-over-prayer-at-calgary-private-school/
Supreme Court ends long-running legal spat over prayer at Calgary private school

The Supreme Court of Canada says it won't hear the latest appeal from the non-denominational Webber Academy.

Global News
Peter V. Tretter ✅ 🇨🇦Feb 13, 2024
‘Untenable and appalling crisis’: Ottawa must fill judicial vacancies plaguing lower courts, Federal Court rules https://ap236.com/6fXzvq #SCOC #CanadianCourts #Judges #Justice #Crime #SpeedyTrial #CanadianCharter #cdnpoli @canadiangreens @cdnpoli
‘Untenable and appalling crisis’: Ottawa must fill judicial vacancies plaguing lower courts, Federal Court rules

The decision comes as a number of serious criminal cases in Toronto have collapsed due to delay caused by the lack of judges in Superior Court.

Toronto Star
Windspeaker.comFeb 12, 2024

“…incremental change is better than no change at all...”

In a 92-page unanimous decision penned by the entire panel of eight Supreme Court justices, Canada’s highest court has said C-92, An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families “as a whole is constitutionally valid”, and affirms Indigenous jurisdiction to make laws in relation to child and family services.

https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/indigenous-leaders-laud-beautiful-happy-supreme-court-ruling-child-welfare

#Indigenous #FirstNations #childwelfare #cdnpoli #SCOC

Indigenous leaders laud beautiful, happy Supreme Court ruling on child welfare jurisdiction

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that the federal government was within its constitutional right to pass jurisdiction to Indigenous communities for the care of their children and families through a federal statute. “I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't worried about (the Feb. 9 judgement) all week. I made sure we did ceremony this week to make sure that it went in our favour,” said Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak.

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