Tribunal Issues Significant Decision in First Nations Child Welfare
Today, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (“the Tribunal”) issued a significant decision regarding First Nations child welfare. This decision contains a series of groundbreaking orders against Canada, requiring Canada to fund the actual cost of child ...
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Lack of Representation of First Nations People on Juries
On January 31, 2018, Julian Falconer was interviewed on CBC’s Power and Politics with Chris Hall. In the segment entitled “Exclusion of First Nation Jurors”, Julian discusses the tragic death of Colten Boushie, a 22-year-old Indigenous m...
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NAN Special Chiefs Winter Assembly 2018
The Nishnawbe Aski Nation (“NAN”) Special Chiefs Winter Assembly continues today at the Victoria Inn Hotel & Convention Centre in Thunder Bay, ON. Falconers LLP counsel Julian Falconer and Akosua Matthews are in attendance. Today, Wednesday, Ja...
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Falconers LLP Lawyer Receives Charles D. Gontheir Award
On Tuesday, January 26, 2018, Anthony Morgan of Falconers LLP was presented the Charles D. Gontheir Award, which was created by the Young Alumni Advisory Board of the Faculty of Law at McGill University in 2008. The Charles D. Gonthier Outstanding You...
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Julian Falconer and Associates welcome new Partner, Asha James
Julian Falconer and Associates are thrilled to announce that Falconers LLP lawyer, Asha James, has become a Partner, as of January 2018. Asha is a graduate of the University of Windsor Law School where she earned American (JD) and Canadian (LLB) law degre...
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Correctional Officers Charged with Killing of Matthew Hines
The tragic death of Matthew Hines in 2015, a 33 year-old from Cape Breton with a history of mental health challenges, could lead to the first trial in Canada involving two correctional officers for their alleged part in an inmates’ death. On Wednesday, ...
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First Nations Call for Senator Beyak’s Resignation
Today, Nishnawbe Aski Nation’s (“NAN”) Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler and Grand Council Treaty #3’s (GCT#3) Ogichidaa Francis Kavanaugh, launched a nation-wide campaign and website calling for Senator Lynn Beyak to resign as a member o...
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Thunder Bay Police Release Video Related to River Death Investigation
APTN News reported that the Thunder Bay Police Service (“TBPS”) has released video surveillance from the area where a 21-year-old Indigenous man, Dylan Moonias ,was last seen alive on the night of Sept. 21. His body was found on Sept.23 in th...
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Colonization and Systemic Racism: Pathways to Change
On Thursday, December 7, 2017, Falconers LLP lawyer, Anthony Morgan, was a featured panelist for the Human Rights Forum on Colonization and Systemic Racism: Pathways to Change, hosted by Urban Alliance on Race Relations. Additional speakers included Chie...
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Challenges Report Remains Intact
On December 1, 2017, at Convocation, The Law Society rejected the motion to create exemptions from the Statement of Principles requirement. On November 6, 2017, The Law Society of Ontario released an updated Statement of Principles, which, according to th...
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Toronto Police Constable Forcillo Bail Revoked and Remains Incarcerated
Toronto Constable James Forcillo’s bail has been revoked, and he will remain in custody at a Toronto-area jail while his bail-breach charge of failing to comply with recognizance is before the courts, the Globe and Mail reports. On November, 30, 201...
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Law Society Putting Equity, Diversity and Inclusion on The Agenda
On November 28, 2017, Julian Falconer was a featured panelist on TVO’s The Agenda, with Steve Paikin. In an episode entitled, “Lawyers and Compelling Diversity”, Falconer discussed with other panelists the Law Society of Ontario’s adoptio...
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