The dispute exposes several fault lines in Canada around work, how we value it and how the law impacts workers.
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In ‘Paying For It,’ exes maintain their bond and their shared home, even as one dates a string of men and the other finds intimacy through sex work.
A case before the Supreme Court of Canada could determine the constitutionality of the country’s prostitution law and statutes that criminalize third parties who benefit financially from the sex trade.
The B.C. Court’s dismissal of Chief Dsta’hyl’s justification that he was following Wet’suwet’en law points to the need for broader discussion regarding rights and jurisdiction.
Appointing individuals who may have links to the party in power is not necessarily troublesome, as long as the process emphasizes legal knowledge and fairness, and not partisan considerations.
Twenty-five years after the landmark Delgamuukw case, Canada is still failing to fulfil its legal obligations to Indigenous Peoples.
To fully implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Canada must engage in genuine and inclusive law reform.
Can post-secondary students be punished for social media posts, even those made off-campus?
Laws and policies that marginalize Indigenous people and communities make these same people vulnerable to disaster.
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UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) and Professor in Political Science, Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Guelph
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Associate Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia
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Assistant Professor of Criminology, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Professor of Criminology, Associate Member of Dept. of Indigenous Studies, Simon Fraser University
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Associate professor, Faculty of Law, Queen's University, Ontario
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Associate Professor, Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University
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PhD candidate, Labour Studies, McMaster University