The University of Victoria is celebrating the construction of its National Center for Indigenous Law (NCIL).
The building is the first of its kind in Canada and has received funding from the provincial and federal governments, as well as the Law Foundation of BC
The NCIL is scheduled to open by fall 2024. Besides being a space to learn, the facility will help Indigenous laws re-emerge.
“Indigenous laws are lived and are living, but they have been suppressed and we have lost pieces of our laws,” said Patricia Barkaskas, NCIL strategic advisor to the dean.
“The space itself is a…
The Supreme Court of Canada will hear appeals on Tuesday, centered on a Yukon First Nation’s requirement that elected officials live on settlement land, and whether that requirement infringes the Charter rights of citizens living elsewhere.
The case could be precedent-setting for self-governing First Nations across the country, as the nation’s highest court considers the intersection of Canadian and Indigenous law when it comes to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and Indigenous self-government.
The court granted Vuntut Gwitchin citizen Cindy Dickson’s appeal application, as well as her First Nation’s conditional application for cross-appeal, last spring.
Dickson began her legal…
The passage of the federal government’s controversial Online News Act has highlighted division over the law as tech giant Meta said it will block news on its social media platforms in response to the legislation.
Bill C-18 received royal assent after a final vote in the Senate on Thursday. The law will compel certain tech companies to pay for news content that they share on their platforms.
Meta announced in a news release following the act’s passage that it will block news for Canadian users in order to comply with the law, and will do so before C-18 comes into…
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Peel police are asking members of the public to be on “alert” for items containing sodium nitrite, including hoods and masks, as the investigation into the online sale of the lethal substance continues.
In a video posted to YouTube on Friday, Peel police provided an update on their investigation into Kenneth Law, the Mississauga man accused of selling sodium…
Taipei, Taiwan – For decades, Hong Kong has advertised the rule of law as the cornerstone of the city’s success as an international business hub.
These days, though, the Hong Kong government often appears unwilling or unable to explain what the law actually is.
In the run-up to the June 4 anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, Hong Kong officials were repeatedly asked by journalists if commemorating the event would be a crime under a Beijing-decreed national security law (NSL) imposed in the wake of mass protests in 2019.
On each occasion, the officials, including Hong Kong Chief Executive…
A federal judge has ruled that Tennessee’s law restricting drag performances in public or where children are present is unconstitutional, striking a blow to efforts to regulate LGBTQ conduct in US states.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee in March signed the bill passed by the state’s assembly that aimed to restrict drag performances, putting the state at the forefront of a Republican-led effort to limit drag in at least 15 states in recent months.
US District Judge Thomas Parker, an appointee of former Republican president Donald Trump, ruled late on Friday that the law was “both unconstitutionally vague and substantially overbroad,”…
BEIJING — Echoing the crackdown on freedoms in neighboring Hong Kong, the former Portuguese colony of Macao has revised its legal system to face “new adverse challenges in terms of national security.”
The government of the tiny enclave, heavily dependent on its gambling industry, said changes to the Law on Safeguarding National Security were needed as an upgrade to legislation first enacted in 2009, a decade after Macao’s handover to Chinese rule.
“As the country now faces new adverse challenges in terms of national security, the revision of Macao’s Law on Safeguarding National Security is a compulsory step to respond…
Consumer advocates in both Canada and the United States are welcoming recent announcements to crack down on the hidden and unexpected charges on purchases that Canadians often pay, but they also say authorities must enforce existing rules for there to be a difference.
Following the footsteps of American lawmakers, the federal Liberals announced that they would be taking a look at the additional fees that are often paired with purchases of items such as concert or event tickets.
In the federal budget released in late March, a small note referring to “junk fees” said the government plans to work to…