Sophie Thériault

Looking forward to reading it! Congratulations Arn!

The HRREC is proud to announce the appointment of Professor @anneslevesque.bsky.social (@uocommonlaw.bsky.social) as the Gordon F. Henderson Chair in #HumanRights 2025-2028. Her term will begin in July 2025, and we look forward to welcoming her to the Centre!

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The King.

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

U.S. Travel Association Warns of Economic Tourism Disaster After Thousands of Canadian Tourists Cancel Trips in Protest While Proposed Tariffs Against Canada Are Now Paused, Canadian Travel Agencies Already Witnessing Retaliation in Form of Canceled Trips

You are making a big difference in standing up to tyranny. Your decision to cancel the family trip to the United States is freaking them out.
As Donald insults our nation, businesses are watching our tourism dollars dry up.
Boycott all trips to the United States.
www.thetravel.com/us-travel-as...

En ces temps sombres, il faut s'attarder à la beauté qui nous entoure. Les cardinaux au rendez-vous à Mud Lake (Ottawa) cet après-midi.

Smart advice from our US colleagues (and real friends).

Twin Peaks - A fish in the percolator - S01E01 YouTube video by Mia Hargreave

"Fellas, don't drink that coffee. You'd never guess. There was a fish in the percolator."

Twin Peaks will never get old. Thank you David Lynch.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSxN...

We were delighted to co-present US Ambassador David L. Cohen's talk @uocommonlaw.bsky.social this morning. We are grateful to the Ambassador for his generosity and insightful comments. Thank you to the organizers and attendees who made this timely event such a success.

Yellowknife's Giant Mine underground sealed off | CBC News The multi-billion dollar cleanup of Yellowknife's Giant Mine reached a milestone in late 2024 — all access to the underground caverns, tunnels and other workings have been sealed off, possibly for goo...

Major milestone as the underground portion of Giant Mine—containing 237,000 tonnes of arsenic trioxide waste—is sealed as part of a plan to freeze it “forever.” We document the origins of this environmental disaster in The Price of Gold, forthcoming in 2025. #mining

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

ABlawg is excellent! Thank you for running it.

I get it, Anna. The messaging was very subtle.

No one could’ve seen it coming!

Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy Russia's neighbor has developed a plan for countering misinformation. Can it be exported to the rest of the world?

Finland have introduced critical thinking into the primary school curriculum with the expressed purpose of protecting their democracy.

edition.cnn.com/interactive/...

Canada spent $14.5M fighting First Nations child advocate in court | CBC News Federal governments both Conservative and Liberal spent at least $14.5 million fighting prominent First Nations child advocate Cindy Blackstock in court over the last 18 years. Blackstock says the fig...

Disappointing, yes. Appalling, yes. I would add perverse. A blatant betrayal of reconciliation.

Wapanakew Scriptwriting Workshop.

As part of the Wapanakew initiative, learners in the Certificate in Indigenous Law took part in an intensive documentary screenwriting workshop held at the University of Ottawa's Innova space from November 30 to December 1.

Learn more here - www.uottawa.ca/faculty-law/...

Atelier de scénarisation Wapanakew.

Dans le cadre de l’initiative Wapanakew, les apprenants du Certificat en droit autochtone se sont réunis lors d’un atelier intensif de scénarisation documentaire à l’espace Innova de l’Université d’Ottawa du 30 novembre au 1er décembre derniers.
Pour en savoir plus - www.uottawa.ca/faculte-droi...

Mining company charged 10 years after spilling toxic waste into B.C. waters | CBC News Fifteen charges under the federal Fisheries Act have been laid against Imperial Metals Corp. more than a decade after a tailings pond collapsed at the Mount Polley mine, spilling more than 20 million ...

It’s taken over a decade, but Imperial Metals is now facing charges over the Mount Polley tailings disaster in BC. A rare potential example of accountability for mining pollution in 🇨🇦.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Newly published : M. Verdussen, "Federal Justice in the Federal States of Europe", in Comparative Federalism - A Pluralist Exploration (eds F. Mathieu, D. Guénette and A.-G. Gagnon), London, Springer-Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

This is devastating.

This is an incredible wealth of resources gathered in one place, get on it!

My son was very insistent on the bacon.

The Supreme Court of Canada just released a fascinating new decision on the Honour of the Crown. Building on a recent case on legislative reconciliation in the child and family services context, it has outlined a complementary framework for contractual reconciliation: www.scc-csc.ca/case-dossier...

Proposed open-pit mine on Quebec-Labrador border drawing concern from Innu, Inuit – The Independent Torngat Metals says it wants to work with Indigenous governments to minimize the potential impacts of its planned rare earth element mining project

A proposed rare earth element mining project on the Quebec side of the Quebec-Labrador border has some Indigenous people in northern Labrador concerned with the potential impacts on the environment and local wildlife.

Read the full story from Evan Careen 👇
#nlpoli
theindependent.ca/news/propose...

Surrounded.

Dossier | La Presse en Jamésie | La route à 300 millions vers nulle part (2 articles) Au nord de Chibougamau, le premier grand projet du Plan Nord, la mine de diamants Renard, s’est soldé par un échec et a coûté plus d’un demi-milliard aux Québécois. Que faire maintenant de 240 kilomèt...

240 km de route vers une mine fermée, ayant fait faillite deux fois sans payer sa part de la facture. Au moins $324 million aux frais des contribuables pour la route, et $300 million de plus pour la mine maintenant fermée. Qui doit payer pour l’infrastructure minière? www.lapresse.ca/actualites/l...

Is Canada’s critical minerals strategy greenwashing? Indigenous and remote communities will bear the long-lasting ecological, social and cultural impacts of mining. This cannot be ignored.

Avec les nouvelles inquiétantes sur Northvolt, je vous propose de lire cet article que j'ai écrit avec Sophie Thériault dans lequel nous critiquons la course à la transition énergétique qui a peu avoir avec une véritable transition énergétique: policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/au...

Le Canada au cinquième rang des paradis fiscaux Il serait lié à plus de 6% des quelque 492 milliards $US de pertes fiscales essuyées par l’ensemble des pays en un an.

A cause des minières, le Canada serait pire que la Suisse.

www.ledevoir.com/economie/823...

Le réseau de recherche MinErAL est heureux d'offrir un soutien financier aux étudiants qui travaillent sur les thématiques de notre réseau. Vous pouvez voir les boursiers 2024-25 ici: www.mineral.ulaval.ca/fr/2024-2025...