October 19, 2021 Today marks the six-year anniversary from the date the body of Rainy River First Nations member Stacy DeBungee was found in the McIntyre River in Thunder Bay. Coinciding with today’s date, the Ontario Provincial Police have announced th...
Read More
Today, September 29th, 2021, Justice Paul Favel of the Federal Court of Canada issued a 111-page decision rejecting Canada’s efforts to overturn several key decisions of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (“CHRT”). The Federal Court upheld the CHRT...
Read More
September 30, 2021 marks the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. This day is intended to honour all of those who were, and continue to be, affected by the horrors of residential schools, including the lost children, the survivors, a...
Read More
On Monday September 27, 2021, Falconers LLP Senior Partner Julian Falconer and associates Jeremy Greenberg and Shelby Percival presented at the Canadian Association of Police Governance (“CAPG”) conference on Peacekeeping in First Nations Communities....
Read More
Today, June 21, 2021, marks the 25th anniversary of National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada. As a tragic reminder of the necessity of this Day, Indigenous people across the nation have again been demonstrating resiliency following the first mass grave d...
Read More
“Child-welfare gaps led to youth suicides, Indigenous group argues at Federal Court” (National Post) June 16, 2021. https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/child-welfare-gaps-led-to-youth-suicides-indigenous-group-argues-at-federal-court...
Read More
Toronto, ON – On June 14-18, 2021, Falconers LLP counsel Akosua Matthews will appear on behalf of Nishnawbe Aski Nation (“NAN”), which is a respondent in the twinned judicial review proceedings brought by the Applicant Attorney General of Canada bef...
Read More
“Police chief should have no say in reinvestigations of sudden deaths, Thunder Bay, Ont., families say” (CBC), June 9, 2021. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/broken-trust-reinvestigations-legitimacy-questioned-1.6058486 Thunder Bay, O...
Read More
Thunder Bay, ON – On June 8, 2021, the families of the late Stacy DeBungee, Jordan Wabasse, and other Indigenous families and advocates appeared at a press conference in Thunder Bay. The families are calling for urgent action on the implementation of th...
Read More
For the press conference livestream beginning at 1:15pm EDT, click here: https://www.facebook.com/falconersllp – link to livestream will be at top of page. Thunder Bay, ON – Today, families of Indigenous persons whose deaths were neglected by the ...
Read More
