What's the Deal with Treaties? A Lay Person's Guide to Treaty Making in British Columbia -- 2d Ed
What's the Deal with Treaties? A Lay Person's Guide to Treaty Making in British Columbia -- 2d Ed

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Published: 2002

Total Pages: 38

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This publication summarizes the issues related to treaties with First Nations in British Columbia and the debates surrounding those issues. Topics discussed include: the political, economic, and legal factors governing the need to negotiate treaties; the treaty process in British Columbia; the role of the Treaty Commission; elements of treaty negotiation; Aboriginal rights & title; self-government; land & natural resources; costs & benefits of treaties; taxation; public consultation & openness in the treaty process; how treaties should be approved; overlaps between lands claimed by different First Nations; certainty of ownership & jurisdiction; and First Nation capacity building. Includes a chronology of Aboriginal relations, a list of BC Claims Task Force recommendations, a list of First Nations participating in the treaty process, and an outline of the six stages of that process.

Recovering Canada
Recovering Canada

Author: John Borrows

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2017-06-22

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1487516754

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Canada is covered by a system of law and governance that largely obscures and ignores the presence of pre-existing Indigenous regimes. Indigenous law, however, has continuing relevance for both Aboriginal peoples and the Canadian state. In his in-depth examination of the continued existence and application of Indigenous legal values, John Borrows suggests how First Nations laws could be applied by Canadian courts, and tempers this by pointing out the many difficulties that would occur if the courts attempted to follow such an approach. By contrasting and comparing Aboriginal stories and Canadian case law, and interweaving political commentary, Borrows argues that there is a better way to constitute Aboriginal / Crown relations in Canada. He suggests that the application of Indigenous legal perspectives to a broad spectrum of issues that confront us as humans will help Canada recover from its colonial past, and help Indigenous people recover their country. Borrows concludes by demonstrating how Indigenous peoples' law could be more fully and consciously integrated with Canadian law to produce a society where two world views can co-exist and a different vision of the Canadian constitution and citizenship can be created.

Marine Mammals Ashore
Marine Mammals Ashore

Author: Joseph R. Geraci

Publisher: National Aquarium in Baltimore

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0977460908

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Comprehensive manual for understanding and carrying out marine mammal rescue activities for stranded seals, manatees, dolphins, whales, or sea otters.

Protection of First Nations Cultural Heritage
Protection of First Nations Cultural Heritage

Author: Catherine Bell

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2009-05-01

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 0774858591

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Indigenous peoples around the world are seeking greater control over tangible and intangible cultural heritage. In Canada, issues concerning repatriation and trade of material culture, heritage site protection, treatment of ancestral remains, and control over intangible heritage are governed by a complex legal and policy environment. This volume looks at the key features of Canadian, US, and international law influencing indigenous cultural heritage in Canada. Legal and extralegal avenues for reform are examined and opportunities and limits of existing frameworks are discussed. Is a radical shift in legal and political relations necessary for First Nations concerns to be meaningfully addressed?

Global Trends 2040
Global Trends 2040

Author: National Intelligence Council

Publisher: Cosimo Reports

Published: 2021-03

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 9781646794973

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"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.