Guatemalan Plaintiffs reach fair and reasonable settlement in Canadian mining lawsuits
TORONTO, ON, Oct. 7, 2024: Lawyers for the Plaintiffs are pleased to announce that after more than a decade of litigation, the Mayan Q’eqchi’ Plaintiffs have successfully reached a fair and reasonable settlement with Hudbay Minerals Inc. which resolves litigation regarding allegations of human rights abuse at the Fenix mine in Guatemala.
Ipperwash Litigation & Inquiry
In 1995, First Nation activist Dudley George was shot and killed by police in Ipperwash Provincial Park at a protest seeking to protect native burial grounds and Treaty lands.
First Nations war veterans
Canadian veterans returning from World War II were offered generous government assistance programmes — except for First Nations veterans, who were simply sent back to their reserves, with a fraction of the farming, housing and educational opportunities that were made available to the non-Natives at whose side they had fought.
First Nation land claim for hydro dam flooding
In the early frontier years of Ontario’s history, a power company built an illegal dam across a major northern Ontario river, flooding parts of the ancestral lands of the Mattagami First Nation, guaranteed to them by Treaty just a few years before.
The Mushkegowuk Cree fight Workfare
When the provincial government dramatically cut back provincial social assistance,First Nations people across the province were especially hard-hit. TheMushkegowuk Council of First Nations on the James Bay coast asked us to challengethe province’s imposition of the changes on First Nations.
Equal Policing for First Nations Communities
In early 2006, despite years of clear warnings of unsafe conditions and chronic underfunding by the federal government, a fire destroyed the dilapidated and unsafe police station in Kaschechewan First Nation in northern Ontario.