Senator Murray Sinclair's Call for Senatorial and Legal Restraint Should Inspire All of Us

Trudo Lemmens
Monday, June 6, 2016

The deluge of op-eds, blogs, commentaries, media interviews and news reports about Bill C-14 on Medical Assistance in Dying has created a level of over-saturation. More careful, reflective statements are increasingly hard to find. What now dominates the debate are bold statements about the constitutionality of the Bill—University of Ottawa’s Amir Attaran apparently even inventing a new constitutional qualifier of ‘unconstitutional by the bucketfull’--and reports of difficult and emotional end-of-life situations, which Bill C-14 may indeed not necessarily solve. It is therefore perhaps no surprise that the eloquent, respectful and wise intervention in the Senate by the Honourable Murray Sinclair, former judge and former Chair of the Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission, did not receive much attention in the media.

Consequences of the Aboriginal residential schools system continue beyond Canada's apology

Monday, March 2, 2015

From left: Alumni Bob Rae, Mayo Moran, Douglas Sanderson at the Hart House discussion on the residential schools system with lawyer Delia Opekokew.

Story and Photos by David Kumagai, 3L

 

Bob Rae is urging the next generation of Canadians to confront Canada’s legacy of abuse against Aboriginal peoples.  

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Special issue of UTLJ devoted to the residential school litigation and settlement

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

The new issue (64:4) of the University of Toronto Law Journal (UTLJ) is a special issue devoted to the residential school litigation and settlement, co-edited by Profs. Mayo Moran and Kent Roach. As well as their introduction, each of them contributes an article, along with articles by other distinguished scholars including frequent visitor to the U of T law school, Prof. John Borrows.

See the issue web page on the University of Toronto Press website.

Vanessa Gurr: A closer look at First Nation rights in Fort McMurray, Alberta

Friday, July 25, 2014

Law student Vanessa Gurr, left, with staff at Industry Relations Corporation


By Karen Gross

Prof. Kent Roach - "Missing aboriginal women: More imprisonment is not the solution"

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

In a commentary in The Globe and Mail, Prof. Kent Roach argues that increasing the number of people sent to prison will not reduce the number of Aboriginal women who are murdered or go missing ("Missing aboriginal women: More imprisonment is not the solution," May 27, 2014).

Read the full commentary on The Globe and Mail website, or below.

Kawaskimhon Aboriginal Moot celebrates 20th anniversary

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Ontario’s resource riches in the northern Ring of Fire region (500 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay) was the background to the recent Kawaskimhon Aboriginal Moot. Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, the moot was hosted at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where it all started back in 1994. Law students, academics, Aboriginal elders, and lawyers working, studying and/or interested in Aboriginal law issues participated in the three-day event.

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