2018 NAN East By-Law Summit Explores Indigenous Legal Traditions
Today, the Nishawbe-Aski Legal Services 2018 NAN East By-Law Summit begins in Timmins, Ontario. The conference runs until March 1, 2018, and discusses how “Indigenous Legal Traditions can and are being revitalized through band bylaws.” Falconers ...
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Gerald Stanley Acquittal Outrage Result of ‘Centuries of Oppression’
In an article published by CBC, Julian Falconer commented that, the outrage felt and expressed across the country following the verdict in the Gerald Stanley trial comes from years of injustice that have deeply eroded confidence of Indigenous peoples in C...
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Boushie Verdict: Proof of Systemic Racism in the Legal System
Today, Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief, Alvin Fiddler, published an opinion exposé in the Toronto Star entitled, “Colten Boushie verdict more proof legal system plagued by systemic racism.” Grand Chief Fiddler wrote: “The acquittal of Geral...
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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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