Happy New Year and welcome to 2026! We’re opening the season with a “meet the team” post featuring Siobhan Washburn and Casey Caines—WLGL legal counsel and former and current ReconciliACTION bloggers who are ready to bring some Indigenous-law energy into your feed this year. Casey Caines & Siobhan Washburn Siobhan is a member of the Otipemisiwak Métis Nation, and grew up in Treaty 6 just south of Edmonton. She loves to spend time with friends and family, to read, and to watch

By Megan Reti & Hero Laird Hello/Tansi, We wanted to take this end-of-2025 blog post to introduce two members of the team behind the ReconciliACTION blog: Megan Reti and Hero Laird.  Megan Hi! My name is Megan Reti and I am a lawyer, a member of the Metis Nation of Alberta, and the newest (sort of) member of the Wahkohtowin Law and Governance Lodge’s legal team, having just rejoined the team on December 1. I worked as a research assistant with the WLGL as a law student and al

By Casey Caines, Hero Laird, and Siobhan Washburn This October, the Wahkohtowin Law and Governance Lodge’s legal team attended the 37th Annual  Indigenous Bar Association  Conference, “Rewriting the Rules: Indigenous-Led Legal Reform and Resistance,” in Vancouver, on the unceded, ancestral, and traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.  The Indigenous Bar Association is a national non-profit association of First Nation, M é tis, and Inuit pe

Image: L-R Hadley Friedland, Hero Laird, Siobhan Washburn, Casey Caines. Generated with Open AI's Chat GPT November 2025. by Hadley Friedland Tawow! The  Wahkohtowin Law and Governance Lodge  welcomes past and new readers to the ReconciliACTION YEG Blog.  This award-winning  blog was previously the home of the University of Alberta Faculty of Law ’s “Law and Social Media” Project. The Law and Social Media Project came to an end in April 2025, and the Wahkohtowin Lodge has tak