Justice Michael Tulloch released his government-commissioned review of the three bodies — the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), the Officer of the Independent Police Review Director (OIPRD) and the Ontario Civilian Police Commission (OCPC) — that o...
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In an April 3, 2017, Toronto Star article, Julian Falconer of Falconers LLP, advocates that the public has the right to know the names of police officers who have killed a civilian while on duty. Falconer stated, “they are public officials doing pub...
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Falconers LLP is pleased to report that the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (“Tribunal”) has issued a March 29, 2017, decision in support of Nishnawbe Aski Nation’s (“NAN”), immediate relief resolutions. In doing so, the Tribunal ...
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On March 31, 2017, the CBC Radio program, Day 6, featured comments by Julian Falconer of Falconers LLP. Falconer’s comments highlighted the interconnection between anti-Indigenous hate crimes and the persistence of systemic racism in the Thunder Bay Pol...
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Falconers LLP partner, Julian Falconer, and associate, Marc Gibson, have co-authored an article featured in the March 2017 issue of The Litigator, the Journal of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association. Falconers LLP argues that police use of force trainin...
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The Toronto Star recently featured comments by Falconers LLP associate, Anthony Morgan, in a March 19, 2017, article on the issue of police collecting race-based disaggregated data. In support of the police collecting and publishing race-based data, Morga...
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Today, members of Falconers LLP celebrated Samantha Ramage, who is leaving us to begin her own practice in her home community. Sam joined us a second-year Lakehead University student, did her placement with us, and began her legal career as an associate a...
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From March 22 to 24, 2017, a compliance hearing will be taking place in Ottawa where Nishnawbe Aski Nation (“NAN”), through legal counsel, Falconers LLP, will be advancing issues relating to Indigenous child welfare equity with the Canadian Hu...
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Today, Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler of Nishnawbe Aski Nation and Canada’s Minister of Indigenous Affairs Carolyn Bennett formally signed an Agreement creating a ground breaking Remoteness Quotient (“RQ”) Table to develop a new funding formula that equi...
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