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"Everything Promised Had Been Included in the Writing": Indian Reserve Farming and the Spirit and Intent of Treaty Six Reconsidered
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Whitehouse-Strong, Derek – Great Plains Quarterly, 2007
In December 2005, a Canadian federal court justice dismissed a six-hundred-million-dollar claim by the Samson Cree related to alleged mismanagement of its energy royalties. In newspaper interviews, a lawyer for the Samson Cree expressed disbelief that the justice discounted the testimony of our elders and followed essentially the written word of…
Descriptors: Federal Courts, Treaties, Canada Natives, Court Litigation
Hate Propaganda and Canadian Schoolteachers.
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Khan, Anwar N. – Journal of Law and Education, 1997
Earlier, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the conviction of a teacher who, within his teaching, was propagating anti-Jewish sentiments. Now, in "Attis v. The Board of School Trustees District No. 15," the Supreme Court decided that a teacher's off-duty activities, which propagate extreme or virulent views against a religious or ethnic…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Federal Courts, Foreign Countries, Freedom of Speech
Public Education, Constitutional Values and the Supreme Court of Canada: Has Our Highest Court Offered a Balanced Approach to Judicial Decision-Making?
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Clarke, Paul T. – Education and the Law, 2004
Since the advent of the "Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms", the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) has rendered judgments in four cases where individual educational stakeholders have alleged violations of their constitutional rights. In three of the cases, "R. v. Jones", "Eaton v. Brant County Board of Education",…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Foreign Countries, Public Education, Constitutional Law