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Avoiding Indigenous Impact by Failing to Understand: Case Comment on Ref re Impact Assessment Act.
This week’s post is a comment on the recent Supreme Court Decision in which the Indigenous consultation provisions of the Impact...

Weaving Legal Traditions: An Animated Insight into Canada's Multi-Juridical Identity
Animation created by Olive Bensler. A multi-juridical nation is composed of many legal orders. Civil and common law traditions with...

Reflection on Renewal, the 35th Indigenous Bar Association Conference
Tansi Ninôtemik, The Indigenous Bar Association (“IBA”) is a federal non-profit organization made up of Indigenous legal...

For all my relations: a zine!
Tansi Ninôtemik, Earlier this week we discussed Indigenous Leadership Theory. For today’s post, I created a zine inspired by Indigenous...

Leading Through Relationship: Indigenous Leadership and Wab Kinew
Tansi Nîtôtemtik, This week’s post explores the exciting election of Wab Kinew as Premier of Manitoba through the lens of Western and...

Why creative acts of reconciliation matter
Tansi Nîtôtemtik, Today’s post accompanies an updated ReconciliACTIONyeg logo. Before we explain the choices we made on the redesign, we...

Sisters in Spirit
Tansi Nîtôtemtik, Last week on the blog we discussed Orange Shirt Day, which occurred this past week on September 30. Another important...

Canada’s embarrassing 13.8% success rate
Tansi Nîtôtemtik, With Orange Shirt Day around the corner, we are discussing the government of Canada’s failure to implement the Truth...

Meet the 2023/24 ReconciliACTION team!
Tansi Nîtôtemtik, Hello and welcome back to another year of ReconciliACTION! We hope this blog post finds you in a good way. We are...

Walking together
Tansi Nîtôtemtik, It is hard to believe that this is the last post for the 2022-23 Reconcili-Action YEG writers. After spending a year...

It’s Time for a Legal Evolution
Tansi Nîtôtemtik, As my time on this blog comes to an end, I can’t help but think about the place for white settler lawyers in the...

Reflecting on the Year: Truth Before Reconciliation
Tansi Nîtôtemtik, This is our last week posting for the Reconcili-ACTION blog, and today, I’m reflecting on the experience I’ve had this...

This isn't the end for me, it is the beginning.
Tansi Nîtôtemtik, It is hard for me to believe that today I am writing my final article for the ReconciliACTION YEG blog. When I was...

Hope and Reconciliation
Tansi Nîtôtemtik, As this semester wraps up, I am left feeling reminiscent. A lot has happened since we introduced ourselves months ago....

Call to Action 92: Reconciliation & the Environment
Tansi Nîtôtemtik, It is hard to believe, but today is the last day of March. That means that today, we are wrapping up our conversation...

R v Green: The Complicated Answer to Whether All Treaty Holders in Canada Can Hunt on the Prairies
Tansi Nîtôtemtik, In today’s blog, we discuss the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal’s (SKCA) 2022 decision in R v Green, which questioned...

Environmental Racism & Reconciliation
Tansi Nîtôtemtik, This week on the blog, we are talking about the environment and its relations with Indigenous peoples and current...

Prejudice in Legislation: Alberta's Critical Infrastructure Defence Act
Tansi Nîtôtemtik, Today’s post will explore new legislation in Alberta, and how it may be targeting Indigenous rights and way of life. On...

Militarized Responses to Land Defenders: “A Frightening Thing”
Tansi Nîtôtemtik, It has been over three years since the British Columbia government granted an injunction authorizing the removal of...
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