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Sharing the Land, Sharing the Future: The Legacy of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples | Reconciling Truths: Reimagining Public Inquiries in Canada | BC Studies
BC Studies no. 218 Summer 2023 | p. 139-141 Do public inquires accomplish anything? As it pertains to First Peoples, this question has become more and more important.
John Lornic & Vaclav Smil among 5 finalists for $60K prize for Canadian public policy writing
Toronto journalist John Lorinc and Czech-Canadian scientist and policy analyst Vaclav Smil are two of the finalists for the 2022 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy. The $60,000 award, which was established in 2021, honours nonfiction that contributes to Canadian policy. Lorinc is a finalist for Dream States, while Smil is a finalist for How the World Really Work.
Reconciling Truths, By Kim Stanton
Public inquiries have often been appointed to examine troubled aspects of Canada’s treatment of Indigenous peoples. Kim Stanton’s insights into what has worked and what has not offer valuable guidance on how to create an inquiry that will truly contribute to reconciliation.
Reconciling Truths: Reimagining Public Inquiries In Canada
Earn 450 plum® points Buy Online Ship to an address Ships within 1-3 weeks.Free shipping on orders over $35 Pick up in store To see if pickup is available, Prices and offers may vary in store Reconciling Truths explores the role and implications of commissions such as Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, particularly their limits and possibilities in an era of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.
Assessments process still marred by delays
An Ontario judge has added his voice to a chorus of justices and lawyers calling on the provincial government to fix long delays at assessment offices. In Linett v. Aird & Berlis LLP, Ontario Superior Court Justice Patrick Monahan said the government should conduct a review of the process for assessing lawyers’ accounts because of delays that are undermining public confidence in the administration of justice.
Call for revamp of carriage motions
Defendants should be completely excluded from carriage motions as part of a broader overhaul to the process for selecting class counsel, according to one of the lawyers on the losing side of the recent bruising battle to prosecute a price manipulation claim against a number of German automakers. In Quenneville v.
Chevron case heads to Court of Appeal again
Third parties are asking the courts to unseal documents in a long-running case about whether an Ecuadorian judgment against oil giant Chevron should be enforced against a Canadian subsidiary in Ontario. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, as well as a group of NGOs, filed separate motions in early April seeking public access to “confidential information” that was sealed by the court in orders in 2012 and 2015. The Court of Appeal is set to hear an appeal in the case, Yaiguaje v.
How ADR can help with family businesses
As baby boomers start retiring, disputes are arising within family businesses as to who will take over once the parents retire. Lawyers and alternative dispute resolution professionals say that mediation can help reduce conflict and ultimately salvage relationships in these situations. “There is so much wealth being passed on between the baby boomers and their descendants; this is a very common problem,” says Paul Iacono, president of YorkStreet Dispute Resolution Group Inc.
Caution urged when sharing privileged documents
A recent decision of the Federal Court of Appeal appears to have sparked a collective sigh of relief from lawyers involved in structuring commercial transactions. The ruling issued March 6 in IGGillis Holdings Inc. v. Minister of National Revenue confirms the legitimacy of the judge-made doctrine of transactional “common interest privilege” and overturns a decision released 15 months earlier by a Federal Court judge.
Differing Conceptions of the Supreme Court" by Kim Stanton
This paper considers the concept of "reconciliation" as it is utilized in two fora: the Supreme Court of Canada (the Court) and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on the legacy of the “Indian residential schools” (TRC). The concept’s development in the Court’s jurisprudence, as compared to the scholarly literature of transitional justice, warrants careful consideration.
A national inquiry for #MMIW? Yes, but do it right.
Yes, it is true that we have had many inquiries into issues that can be viewed as relating to the missing and murdered Indigenous women, and those inquiries produced a heap of recommendations, many of which were never implemented. Yes, inquiries are expensive. But not addressing entrenched societal problems? Much more expensive. Those that have written in opposition to the call for a national inquiry have helpfully illustrated precisely why one is needed.
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