Published in the Ottawa Citizen on: November 27, 2017 The Hassan Diab case is beginning to reek of the late 19th-century “Dreyfus Affair “now that a fourth French judge’s order for Diab’s release for lack of evidence has been quashed at a higher level, and this...
If this coalition and the beginnings of its locally determined vision are given a chance, they could set an example of reconciliation between Canada’s Indigenous and settler populations. Their dialogue and what emerges from it could also help point the way toward a post-150 re-conception of Canada.
First published in the Ottawa Citizen, July 8, 2014. The Supreme Court’s 8-0 decision recognizing Aboriginal title to land First Nations communities have inhabited since before European contact is huge. It legitimizes understandings of land tenure as habitation and...
First published in the Ottawa Citizen, May 20, 2014 The House of Commons became more fully representative over time, as the franchise was extended to all men, not just property holders, and to women as well. But its record at representing the common good of...
printed on rable.ca on February 24, 2014 Once again, Thomas Berger is at the centre of a case that questions whether only one understanding of development will rule, or whether justice demands negotiation among alternatives. In the 1970s Mackenzie Valley Pipeline...
printed in rable.ca February 5, 2013 What lingers from watching Alanis Obomsawin's new documentary on Attawapiskat's housing crisis, The People of the Kattawapiskak River, is the contrast. The buildings associated with the De Beers diamond mine close to the native...
Idle No More is an historic opportunity for alliance building rabble.ca opinion A seventh-generation descendent of Chief Tecumseh, who led the Native Nations in an alliance with General Isaac Brock in the War of 1812, came to Ottawa earlier this month to see Chief...