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June 4, 2019Since time immemorial, Indigenous peoples have held unique cultural, social, and economic identities that are embedded in the ecological and natural resources that are found throughout their lands. Historically, Indigenous peoples’ daily life cycles relied on the natural…
April 21, 2019 If not us, then who? If not now, then when? I wonder if those are questions that the youth of this small blue planet asked themselves when they made the courageous decision to enter the very adult…
March 14, 2019 Many jurisdictions are trying to enact new laws to protect their coastlines from various pressures, such as offshore oil drilling and climate change. Recent examples include the Arctic Cultural and Coastal Plain Protection Act and the Atlantic…
I was first introduced to restorative practice in my second summer of law school when I spent two months working at the Community Justice Society (“CJS”) in Halifax. CJS runs the restorative justice program for the Department of Justice in…
February 15, 2019 What’s in my drinking water? What’s in the air that I breathe? What’s in the food I’m eating? Not knowing the answers is often worse than knowing. When we are aware of environmental contamination, we can…