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What’s love got to do with it?
Photo Credit: At the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage, Amy Foote, centre, and Echavarria, right, receive donated moose meat from...

What a week.
Tansi Nîtôtemtik, What a week. Last week, we watched the “freedom convoy” move towards Ottawa protesting public health mandates. At the...

Guilty until Proven Innocent: Who Pays the Price of Judicial Reform?
Tansi Nîtôtemtik, Guilty until proven innocent is the new reality for Alberta drivers. Since the implementation of the Justice...

Indigenous Support in Correctional/Custody Facilities
Tansi Nîtôtemtik/Negha Dagondih, Today’s post will focus on the incarceration of inmates in the Northwest Territories, and the attempts...

Truly Criminal: Systemic Racism in the Justice System
There has been a general recognition in Canadian society that Indigenous people are overrepresented in the justice system. However, we...

A glance at the TruckerConvoy2022
A glance at the TruckerConvoy 2022 and getting involved in law reform Tansi Nîtôtemtik, good morning everyone, Some laws need to change -...

Something to talk about
Convoys and conversations: how can we learn if we cannot speak to one another? Tansi Nîtôtemtik, Talking about education and justice is...

The Truth We Seek: BIPOC, Mental Health & the Law
On June 4th, 2020, the RCMP responded to a wellness check in Edmundston, New Brunswick, regarding an individual in distress. That call...

Level Justice within Secondary School Settings
Tansi Nîtôtemtik/Negha Dagondih, Expansion of legal education, legal outreach, and accessibility to law. These are all fundamental...

Failing to make the Grade and How to Pass: Law School Responses to Call to Action #28.
Updated: January 27, 2022 with corrections. Tansi Nîtôtemtik, Unlearning the victor’s narrative is challenging. It makes us question...

Kneading the dough, learning our truths
Tansi Nîtôtemtik, hello everyone! If you have made sourdough, muffins, bannock, pizza, or other tasty snacks, you know what it takes to...

The slow violence of an evergreen genocide
Tansi Nîtôtemtik, Last year’s writers looked at Call to Action 41 seventeen months after the Inquiry’s final report, and it’s 293 Calls...

Justice for One, Justice for All: MMIWG and 2SLGBTQQIA+
Tansi Nitotemtik, “Justice for one, justice for all.” A simple sentence in theory made much more complicated, particularly in Canada when...

Calls to Action #30 & 31 towards Territorial Preventative Measures
Tansi Nîtôtemtik/Negha Dagondih, When we think of justice, sometimes we think of how to treat people within systems, but when we take a...

Preventing Overrepresentation of Indigenous Offenders
Tansi Nîtôtemtik, “Why does your law, from the Ten Commandments to the Criminal Code, speak only about what people should not do? Why...

Law is a tool to solve problems. Here's how.
Tansi Nîtôtemtik, hello everyone! Often, great justice hides in plain sight. Imagine the stories: "Patron takes deep breath, avoids bar...

Looking forward to a deep dive on questions of culture
Tansi Nîtôtemtik, Rounding out our first week back in 2022, here’s a look at what will be coming up in March. Our final theme for the...

Previewing Indigenous Health Issues
Tansi Nîtôtemtik, This week Team ReconciliACTION YEG is introducing topics that we plan to bring you during the term. Not only do we have...

A Collective Analysis of Justice
Tansi Nîtôtemtik/Negha Dagondih, Calls to Action #25 - 42 all speak of various ways of advocating, ensuring, and promoting justice for...
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