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(2017-08-09)Engaging in Cree ceremonies, in one manner, is a legal act. It is also a gendered act as well. Thus, ceremony is one avenue to seek both legal and gendered transformations. The transformational processes this thesis ...
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Challenging the binary of custom and law : a consideration of legal change in the Kingdom of Tonga (2017-06-01)The starting point for a consideration of law in former colonies is often a law/custom binary whereby law is the formal legal system imposed during the colonial occupation and retained at independence, and custom the local ...
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(2017-05-01)This thesis offers theoretical and practical explorations of how multimedia arts-based methods and embodied storytelling support critical and transformative understandings of law. Using theatre as both subject and method, ...
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(2017-04-18)The current framework for reconciliation is based on the Court’s accepted the Crown’s assertion of sovereignty, legislative power and underlying title. The basis of this is their interpretation of Section 91(24), which ...
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(2016-11-22)This thesis explores the issue of lifelong incarceration in the Canadian context. Lifelong incarceration, defined as a criminal sentence which forecloses hope of prospective release from its outset, is a new sentencing ...
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(2016-05-09)In this dissertation I argue for the need to develop a Metis Critical Legal Theory, or “MetCrit”, a theory that is particular to the cultures, issues and concerns of Metis people. Suggestions towards the development of ...
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(2016-03-18)Chapter I introduces the Vancouver Island or ‘Douglas’ Treaties of 1850-54, entered into between several Vancouver Island First Nations and Hudson’s Bay Company Chief Factor, James Douglas, acting as agent of the Crown. ...
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(2015-08-28)This thesis begins by critically evaluating the right to shelter jurisprudence in Canada, specifically with respect to urban camping. It argues that whereas homeless people sleeping in parks have had (limited) success in ...
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(2015-08-18)“Stratospheric Sulfate Injection” (SSI) is an emergent technology that is meant to reduce global warming by blocking incoming sunlight, in particular, by injecting sulfate particles into the stratosphere. Once SSI gets ...
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(2015-05-28)The interpreter is overlooked when considering the refugee claim process in Canada, even though refugee lawyers most often work with interpreters to understand their clients. Through qualitative interviews with refugee ...
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(2015-04-30)One cannot begin to understand the nature of Hul’qmi’num legal tradition without first acknowledging and understanding the relationship between culture and law. The Coast Salish people have a vibrant culture, influenced ...
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(2015-04-23)Among the features that distinguish British Columbia’s mental health laws from those in other provinces in Canada is that they accord a high level of discretion to psychiatrists to impose involuntary treatment on patients ...
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(2015-02-10)The British North America Act, 1930 (the Natural Resources Transfer Agreements or NRTAs) marked the end of a lengthy battle between the provincial governments of Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Manitoba and the federal government ...
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(2015-01-29)The author attended Independent Assessment Process (IAP) hearings as part of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement. Her experience in IAP hearings raised questions about our approach, as Canadians, to ...
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(2014-12-24)First Nations in Canada face numerous challenges when it comes to water. First Nations experiences with water range from individual and family challenges, including limited or no access to safe drinking water, to broader ...
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(2014-09-18)Canada is one of the wealthiest and most technologically advanced countries in the world. Yet, it fails to maintain an effective and comprehensive system for responding to weather-related hazards. The adverse socio-economic ...
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(2014-09-02)This thesis examines a fuel spill at Goldstream River, on Coast and Straights Salish People’s territory, on southern Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Goldstream is an important salmon spawning and fishing location ...
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(2014-01-24)Within the transnational legal sphere, internal and external private legal systems regulate alongside a pluralism of national and international legal systems. This thesis explores the elements of transnational private legal ...
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(2013-10-03)The main argument of this study is that the right of Indigenous peoples in Peru to consultation has little practical force and effect, since the Peruvian Constitutional Tribunal is not prepared to base it on a broader right ...
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(2013-09-04)Rooted in legal theory and environmental studies, this thesis aims to (re)define the ‘population problem’ and related regulatory resolutions in constructive and clear terms, within a broad concept of 'law’. Green legal ...
