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ILSA Speaker Series 2024!
Tansi Ninôtemik, This week, we look forward to bringing you along to the Indigenous Law Students’ Association [“ILSA”] 2024 Speaker...
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Mar 5, 20242 min read
Special Sticker Series: This Really is Harm Reduction
Tansi Ninôtemik, In support of tawâw Outreach Collective, this week's blog posts have all highlighted stickers by Blog Author Olive...
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Mar 1, 20242 min read
Special Sticker Series: 'Stick' Up for Trans Rights
Tansi Ninôtemik, In support of tawâw outreach collective, this week's blog posts will each highlight a sticker by Blog Author Olive...
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Feb 28, 20241 min read
Special Sticker Series: Outreach Family
Tansi Ninôtemik, In support of Tawâw Outreach Collective, this week's blog posts will each highlight a sticker by Blog Author Olive...
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Feb 27, 20242 min read
Special Series: Make Harm Reduction 'Stick'
Tansi Ninôtemik, In support of Tawâw Outreach Collective, this week's blog posts will each highlight a sticker by Blog Author Olive...
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Feb 26, 20241 min read
Danielle Smith Continues a Long Tradition of Treating Indigenous Bodies as Property of the State
TW: Forced sterilization, the disk system, Danielle Smith. Tansi Ninôtemik, This is part two of a four part series that discusses how...
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Feb 21, 20242 min read
Delivered "By the Court": the Significance of an Anonymous Bill C-92 Reference Decision
As discussed earlier this week, on February 9th, the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously upheld an Act Respecting First Nations, Metis...
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Feb 16, 20242 min read
The Supreme Court of Canada’s Opinion in Ref: Re Bill C-92 Makes Space For Indigenous Law
The Supreme Court of Canada unanimously upheld an Act Respecting First Nations, Metis and Inuit Children Youth and Families (Bill C-92)....
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Feb 14, 20242 min read
So-called Parental Rights Policies Cut Against Indigenous Self-determination
This is part one of a four part series that discusses how Danielle Smith’s Proposed so-called parental rights policies parallel and...
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Feb 9, 20242 min read
Isolation and Over-Incarceration: Community-Centered Approaches to the Loneliness Epidemic
Tansi Ninôtemik, Last week's discussions centered around prosecutorial discretion, mental health, R v Gladue, and ACE scores. This week,...
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Feb 6, 20242 min read
EPS is dismantling people's only shelter - what now?
On January 8th and 9th, three Indigenous people were arrested related to their peaceful resistance of the Rowland encampment eviction....
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Jan 30, 20243 min read
Which Kids Deserve a Cultural Connection? The applicability of Bill C-92 to Indigenous Identity
TW: Mentions of CFS Tansi Ninôtemik, Following up on our last post about An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis Children, youth...
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Jan 26, 20243 min read
Indigenous children do not return home: how Bill C-92 reinforces colonialism
TW: Mentions of CFS, foster care. Tansi Ninôtemik, Indigenous children are removed from their families at a rate 17 times higher than...
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Jan 23, 20243 min read
You Can’t Have Reconciliation Without Truth: the Harms of Residential School Denialism
On January 18, 2024, residential school denialist Frances Widdowson spoke at the University of Alberta. Giving such views a powerful...
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Jan 18, 20248 min read
Dismantle the Barriers, Not the Tents: Edmonton’s Encampment Evictions and the Over-Policing of Indigenous Communities
Trigger Warning: This post contains descriptions of police violence. Photograph shows ReconciliACTIONYEG Blog author Olive Bensler...
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Jan 15, 20245 min read
Narrative Analysis in Action!
Tansi Ninôtemik, Earlier this week we posted about the narrative analysis method for revitalizing Indigenous laws. Today the...
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Dec 1, 20237 min read
How can a story be law?
“We take the stories that have actually been brought down for generations because they have value. Even though some of them sound...
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Nov 27, 20234 min read
Pobody's Nerfect: Challenging the Deficit Discourse
On Tuesday we wrote a post detailing some of the challenges that come with tracking reconciliation. Another such challenge is the idea of...
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Nov 24, 20232 min read
Can We Call it Progress? The Challenges with Tracking Reconciliation
Art piece by Olive Bensler In the years since the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) and the...
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Nov 21, 20234 min read
Two-Spirit Identity in Ojibwe and Plains Cree Practices
Art piece created by Olive Bensler. Tansi Ninôtemik, Over the last week, we have discussed various Indigenous identity topics, from...
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Nov 17, 20233 min read
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