News articles and op-eds related to Indigenous Rights.
- Canada’s shell game on C-92 funding (Toronto: The Lawyer’s Daily, February 8, 2021) or read article on my blog.
- Breaches of Indigenous human rights condemned by UN (Toronto: The Lawyer’s Daily, May 17, 2022)
- Eastern Door (Mi’kmaw lawyers including P. Palmater), “First Nations have their own legal authority to regulate their fishing rights” (Ottawa: Policy Options, October 22, 2020).
- Mi’kmaw treaty rights, reconciliation and the rule of law (Winnipeg: Canadian Dimension, September 22, 2020)
- First Nations and the Business of Cannabis (Toronto: Lawyer’s Daily, September 25, 2019 – Open Access Version)
- “Bill C-92’s Indigenous child welfare act risks continuing the status quo” (Toronto: Rabble.ca, April 5, 2019).
- “Cannabis legalization Ignores First Nations” (Toronto: The Lawyer’s Daily, January 30, 2019).
- “Will Ottawa heed UN on rights of First Nations women?” (Ottawa: Policy Options, January 22, 2019).
- “Canada continues to deny sex equality to First Nation women and children” (Toronto: Rabble, January 23, 2019 – originally January 20, 2019).
- “The Indigenous Right to Say No” (Toronto: Lawyer’s Daily, October 12, 2018).
- “The Supreme Court has just gutted the Crown’s Duty to Consult First Nations” (Toronto: Maclean’s, October 11, 2018).
- “It’s up to Indigenous, environmental groups to protect the public interest” (Toronto: The Lawyer’s Daily, September 17, 2018).
- “Killer Whales, Trans Mountain Pipeline and the Public Interest” (Toronto: The Lawyer’s Daily, September 11, 2018).
- “Respect for First Nations rights could’ve spared us this panic over Trans Mountain”(Toronto: Maclean’s, August 31, 2018).
- “Indigenous Rights are not Conditional on Public Opinion” (Toronto: Maclean’s, June 8, 2018).
- “True Test of Reconciliation: Respect the Indigenous Right to Say No” (Winnipeg: Canadian Dimension Magazine, May 19, 2018).
- “Toss Bill C-69 overboard and protect our water, Mr. Trudeau” (Ottawa: Ottawa Citizen, April 19, 2018).
- “Canada’s Criminalization of the Indigenous Tobacco Trade” (Toronto: The Lawyer’s Daily, April 4, 2018).
- “Trudeau’s Dance of Deception on Indigenous Rights” (Toronto: The Lawyer’s Daily, February 26, 2018).
- “NAFTA 2.0 Time to Get it Right or Kill It” (Toronto: The Lawyer’s Daily, October 10, 2017).
- “Why is Trudeau Government Opposing Charter Equality for Indigenous Women? (Toronto: The Lawyer’s Daily, June 21, 2017).
- “Nation to nation relations need repeal of paternalistic laws” (Toronto: The Lawyer’s Daily, April 17, 2017).
- “TPP dead in the water without First Nation consent” (Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, November 2016).
- “International Women’s Day: Indigenous Women still not equal in Canada” (Ottawa: CBC News, 7 March 2015).
- “Indian status: Why Lynn Gehl’s court challenge matters” (Ottawa: CBC News Analysis, 20 October 2014).
- “Forcing our Hearts: Legislative Oppression of Indigenous Women in Canada” (Toronto: FUSE Magazine, May 2012).
- “First Nations Fiasco” (Toronto: Precedent Magazine, 14 March 2012).