Falconers LLP Lawyer Comments On TPS Board Chair Role with Conservative Party

Falconers Associate, Anthony Morgan, provides comment on Toronto Police Services Board Chair Andy Pringle’s fundraising role with Conservative Party leadership candidate, Kellie Leitch. Ms. Leitch is known for controversially championing the adoption of...

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Chief Jim Leonard Of Rainy River First Nations: Things Are Not Fine In Thunder Bay

Following Chief Jim Leonard’s letter to the editor featured by The Chronicle Journal on September 30, 2016, Julian Falconer of Falconers LLP, appeared on CTV – Your Morning. Falconer discussed the DeBungee case, and other incidents that have...

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Falconair Lands In Kasabonika Lake First Nation

On September 29, 2016 lawyers Julian Falconer and Asha James of Falconers LLP, were welcomed by the Kasabonika Lake First Nation Chief Anderson, for purposes of providing legal support on various issues in the community. Falconers LLP thanks Chief Ander...

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DeBungee / Rainy River First Nations Complaints Lead To Systemic Racism Investigation of Thunder Bay Police Service

September 23, 2016: Falconers LLP lawyers, Julian Falconer and Meaghan Daniel, represent the DeBungee family and the Rainy River First Nation in respect of the death of 41-year-old Stacey Lance Debungee. In a recent public statement Julian Falconer criti...

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Falconers LLP Congratulates It’s Colleagues and Clients:

Today, at Roy Thomson Hall Samantha Ramage and Shardae Fortier are among the 300 new lawyers being welcomed to the profession. It is also a special day for Nishnawbe Aski Nation as the Law Society of Upper Canada is conferring an Honorary Doctorate of Law...

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Speech at Ryerson University Moderated By Fifth Estate Host Mark Kelly CBC

September 22, 2016: Schaeffer Minty Supreme Court of Canada Judgment: Click Here. Julian Falconer spoke as a panelist at an event hosted by the Ryerson University Centre for Free Expression entitled, “Why the Secrecy? Police Conduct & the Public’...

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United Church Chooses Discipline Over Dialogue – Reverend Gretta Vosper

Falconers LLP lawyers Julian Falconer and Akosua Matthews represent Rev. Vosper. On September 22, 2016 The United Church of Canada, specifically the sub-Executive of the Toronto Conference of the United Church of Canada (“UCC”), has accepted the Inte...

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Falconair Lands In Bearskin Lake

Above: NAN Deputy Grand Chief Derek Fox and CAO Travis Boissoneau meet with Chief Rosemary McKay, Bearskin Lake First Nation and Martha Sturgeon Bearskin Lake First Nation: On September 21, 2016 lawyer Julian Falconer of Falconers LLP, NAN Deputy Chief ...

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Law Society of Upper Canada Releases Groundbreaking Report on Systemic Racism in the Legal Profession

On September 20, 2016, the Law Society released a report entitled, Working Together for Change: Strategies to Address Issues of Systemic Racism in the Legal Professions. The Report marks a groundbreaking advancement in the Law Society of Upper Canada’s ...

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Falconers LLP’s Welcomes New Lawyers From Lakehead University’s Inaugural Class

September 20, 2016: Maclean’s magazine features Elysia Petrone-Reitberger and Samantha Ramage; two of the Lakehead University’s Bora Laskin Faculty of Law graduates hired by Falconers LLP. Canada’s newest law school opened in northern Ontari...

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NAPS Labour Agreement Successfully Negotiated

On September 15, 2016, a new collective bargaining agreement was reached between negotiators for the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service (NAPS) and the union representing its police officers, the Public Service Alliance of Canada. Details of the proposed agreem...

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Canadian Human Rights Tribunal Endorses Nishnawbe Aski Nation’s Northern Remoteness Quotient

September 16, 2016: Yesterday, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (“the Tribunal”) issued a ruling on immediate relief in the First Nation Child and Family Caring Society of Canada et al. v. Attorney General of Canada proceedings. The Tribunal endorse...

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