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Heartbreaking loss. Rest in power Marta.

Welcome development from the courts.

Congratulations to our own Aman Singh on your election as MLA for Richmond-Queensborough

All the best tomorrow to our very own Aman Singh, running in the upcoming provincial election as the BC NDP's candidate for Richmond-Queensborough. Aman has never shrunk back in this collective fight for social justice, whether inside the courtroom or out on the streets, and we know he and his advocacy will continue to do us proud

"To be to be frank, our legal system has not treated Indigenous people, in my view, fairly," said Brad Regehr, a Cree lawyer who was appointed president of the association last month. It is the largest professional association of lawyers in Canada. "I know that there are people working on it. I don't want to downplay any of that. But we're going to need further changes," Regehr said. "And they can't be led by non-Indigenous people. Indigenous people have to be involved in wor...king out these changes, and they have to be involved in leading it." Regehr pointed to several historical examples of how Canada's legal system has mistreated Indigenous people from the Sixties Scoop to residential schools, to a 1927 amendment to the Indian Act that prevented lawyers from representing Indigenous people in land disputes. "This only ended in 1951," he added.

The Mi'kmaq, they have a right. The Supreme Court of Canada decided in the Marshall decision that they agree, yes, the Mi'kmaq have a treaty right to make a living from fishing and hunting and gathering. They came out with the term "moderate livelihood," didn't define it, so it's a little confusing. But they upheld that treaty right. And so the problem is, is that when we call it an illegal fishery, that's only because the Department of Fisheries and Oceans has not implemented their own law, like they haven't addressed the Marshall decision to date. So there are no rules to govern a moderate livelihood fishery. And so in the eyes of DFO, it might be an illegal fishery, but in fact, the Mi'kmaq have a legal right, a constitutional right to go fish and make a living.