{"title":"The Case for a Greenpeace Apology to Newfoundland and Labrador","authors":"D. Burke","doi":"10.22584/NR51.2021.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22584/NR51.2021.002","url":null,"abstract":"Greenpeace’s early work in the anti-sealing movement in the 1970s–1980s is a complex legacy for the organization to navigate. While Greenpeace Canada withdrew from the anti-sealing movement in 1986 and expressed regret for the impact of its actions on Inuit, the extent of the long-term damage caused by the anti-sealing movement, and Greenpeace’s controversial track record in it, motivated Greenpeace Canada to articulate a more robust public apology to Canadian Inuit in 2014. This commentary outlines a case for Greenpeace to continue its path of reconciliation for activities undertaken during the anti-sealing movement and to apologize to the people of Newfoundland and Labrador. Particularly, the commentary calls for an apology to sealers, their families, and their communities, and to First Nations and Inuit people from the province, for Greenpeace’s role in inflicting and promoting forms of violence, stigma, and cultural hatred, and in undermining Indigenous rights in the province.","PeriodicalId":308485,"journal":{"name":"The Northern Review","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125050726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Colin R. Bonnycastle, Kendra L. Nixon, Marleny Bonnycastle, J. Hughes, Allison Groening
{"title":"Re-establishing their Lives: Issues Relating to Affordable Housing for Women and their Children Escaping Violent Intimate Partner Relationships in Northern Manitoba","authors":"Colin R. Bonnycastle, Kendra L. Nixon, Marleny Bonnycastle, J. Hughes, Allison Groening","doi":"10.22584/NR51.2021.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22584/NR51.2021.001","url":null,"abstract":"ADVANCE ONLINE ARTICLE POSTED MAY 25, 2021Housing affordability is a significant and growing issue across northern Manitoba communities. One population impacted by the lack of safe and affordable housing is women (and their children) leaving violent and abusive relationships. Through in-depth qualitative interviews with fourteen women staying in women’s shelters in the cities of Thompson and Winnipeg, Manitoba, this research project focused on exploring the journeys women make as they seek safety and shelter for themselves and their children, and their reasons for making these transitions. The women’s interviews revealed: 1) the centrality of the notion of home for women establishing safety for themselves and their children; and 2) the complex transitions and geographic moves that women make in search of the idea of home and safety. The stories of their journeys point to severe issues regarding availability of affordable, safe housing in northern Manitoba, the lack of northern transportation services to access shelters, and the significant absence of formal support on First Nation communities. The research reiterates that there is a need for proactive service responses to violence against women and children. Such a coordinated response needs to begin in the northern communities themselves, with links to regional services and supports when appropriate.","PeriodicalId":308485,"journal":{"name":"The Northern Review","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127641634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image (by Christopher P. Heuer)","authors":"M. Turner","doi":"10.22584/NR51.2021.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22584/NR51.2021.007","url":null,"abstract":"Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image. By Christopher P. Heuer, Zone Books, 2019. 264 pp. 72 black and white illus.https://www.zonebooks.org/books/135-into-the-white-the-renaissance-arctic-and-the-end-of-the-image","PeriodicalId":308485,"journal":{"name":"The Northern Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131445403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Arsenic Lost Years: Pollution Control at Giant Mine from 1978 to 1999","authors":"Sally Western","doi":"10.22584/NR51.2021.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22584/NR51.2021.004","url":null,"abstract":"Arsenic pollution of the air, land, and waters surrounding the Giant Gold Mine in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, has been an ongoing public health crisis since the mine was opened in 1948. This article focuses on the story of Giant Mine from 1978 to 1999, paying particular attention to environmental health policy reform in the mine’s later years in the 1990s. I argue that regulatory action was delayed and ultimately prevented by the inability of regulators to respond to the risks that continuous exposure to low doses of arsenic posed to the community around Giant Mine. This article uncovers a trail of government, activist, and industry discourse that illuminates the extent to which the Canadian environmental regulatory structure was paralyzed by a lack of certainty on how toxins like arsenic interact with the human body.","PeriodicalId":308485,"journal":{"name":"The Northern Review","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114596670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Quest for Representative Juries in the Northwest Territories","authors":"Charlie Davison","doi":"10.22584/nr50.2020.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22584/nr50.2020.009","url":null,"abstract":"[From Introduction]Inherent in our constitutional right to a jury trial in criminal cases—for offences where imprisonment for five years or more is a possible sentence— is the right to have jurors who are our “peers” and “equals.” This right can be traced back to 1215 when King John signed the Magna Carta to make peace with the wealthy men of England.The route from the Magna Carta to Canadian criminal law in the early twenty-first century is long and convoluted, and extra twists and turns are added when we consider the use of juries in Canada’s North. Here, where the effects of colonialism are still felt on a daily basis, and where communities from which a jury might be drawn sometimes number only a few hundred persons, the ability to obtain a jury comprised of “the peers” of our clients, who are usually Indigenous, can be challenging and sometimes difficult. In this article I offer my perspective, as a practising criminal defence lawyer in the Northwest Territories, on the challenges we face in trying to obtain juries that truly represent the communities from which our clients originate. ... ...More","PeriodicalId":308485,"journal":{"name":"The Northern Review","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128179298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflections on the Evolution of Legal Systems in the Canadian North","authors":"K. Coates","doi":"10.22584/nr50.2020.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22584/nr50.2020.012","url":null,"abstract":"\" ... In the coming decades, based on genuine political and judicial interest in reconciliation and Indigenous engagement, the North will be well along the way toward the shared creation of a multicultural system of law and justice that reflects the cultures, histories, values, and political realities of the diverse peoples who now inhabit the Territorial North in Canada.\"","PeriodicalId":308485,"journal":{"name":"The Northern Review","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114150146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial: Introduction to Law in the Canadian North","authors":"K. Coates","doi":"10.22584/nr50.2020.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22584/nr50.2020.001","url":null,"abstract":"For over thirty years, the Northern Review has published the occasional article, commentary, or book review on various aspects of law in the Circumpolar North. Those topics have included policing in the Klondike, criminal and restorative justice in Alaska, the legal status concerning Indigenous peoples in Russia, and issues of sovereignty and governance.However, the journal has never published a special issue or collection specifically focused on law in the Canadian North. We decided the time was long overdue. Thanks to Yukon Chief Justice Ron Veale’s vision and to the Law Society of Yukon’s sponsorship of the project, this, our fiftieth issue, is the first devoted exclusively to exploring some of the diverse topics facing law and legal practice in the North. ,,,... More ...","PeriodicalId":308485,"journal":{"name":"The Northern Review","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134394739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case","authors":"Luke S. Faught","doi":"10.22584/nr50.2020.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22584/nr50.2020.015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":308485,"journal":{"name":"The Northern Review","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121823791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proposed Administrative Tribunal Policies Concerning Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and Values, and the Duty to Consult","authors":"Michael d’Eça","doi":"10.22584/nr50.2020.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22584/nr50.2020.010","url":null,"abstract":"1. IntroductionFormer Chief Justice McLachlin’s recognition of the importance and effectiveness of tribunals is nowhere more relevant than in Canada’s North—particularly with respect to the co-management of wildlife and the environment. Prior to the relatively recent establishment of land claim boards, much decision making with respect to environmental and wildlife matters in the northern regions was made in Ottawa, and essentially all decision making followed processes that, at best, afforded insufficient input from those most affected by such decisions.While significant advances have been achieved over the last several decades, there still remains room for improvement. Accordingly, this article intends to set out recommendations for:(a) Enhancements to the integration of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge (IEK)2 and values into the practice of administrative law in the North; and(b) Tribunal policies that reflect recent Supreme Court of Canada decisions regarding the duty to consult and, where appropriate, accommodate. ... ...More","PeriodicalId":308485,"journal":{"name":"The Northern Review","volume":"440 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123016652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Implicating the System: Judicial Discourses in the Sentencing of Indigenous Women (by Elspeth Kaiser-Derrick)","authors":"E. Bolger","doi":"10.22584/nr50.2020.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22584/nr50.2020.014","url":null,"abstract":"Implicating the System: Judicial Discourses in the Sentencing of Indigenous Women. By Elspeth Kaiser-Derrick. University of Manitoba Press, 2019.","PeriodicalId":308485,"journal":{"name":"The Northern Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127702119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}