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Valued at $30,000, the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award is Canada's biggest literary prize for children's literature. Nicola I. Campbell's Shi-Shi-Etko was a finalist in 2006, but the book's sequel Shi-Chi's Canoe won the grand prize in 2009. [ 26 ]
Canadian literature is written in several languages including English, French, and to some degree various Indigenous languages. It is often divided into French- and English-language literatures, which are rooted in the literary traditions of France and Britain, respectively. [ 1 ]
R. v. Gonzales (1962), 37 C.R. 56, was a landmark decision by the British Columbia Court of Appeal holding that Section 94(a) of the Indian Act did not violate the respondent's equality before the law, guaranteed under section 1(b) of the Canadian Bill of Rights, because all Indians were treated in the same way.
Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case is a 2019 nonfiction book by Kent Roach, a law professor at the University of Toronto [1] about the trial of Gerald Stanley, who was found not guilty of the 2016 killing of Colten Boushie—a twenty-two-year-old resident of the Red Pheasant First Nation by an all-white jury in an infamous court case in ...
Calder v British Columbia (AG) [1973] SCR 313, [1973] 4 WWR 1 was a decision by the Supreme Court of Canada.It was the first time that Canadian law acknowledged that aboriginal title to land existed prior to the colonization of the continent and was not merely derived from statutory law.
Musqueam flag. The Van der Peet test is a legal framework used by Canadian courts to determine the scope and content of Indigenous rights. The test was established by the Supreme Court of Canada in the 1996 case of R v Van der Peet, which involved the Musqueam First Nation in British Columbia and their traditional fishing practices.
List of indigenous peoples; List of Canadian Inuit; List of Métis people; List of place names in Canada of Aboriginal origin; List of placenames of indigenous origin in the Americas; List of pre-Columbian cultures; List of tribal councils in British Columbia; List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas; Looting of Battleford; Louis ...
[9] In response to the threat of extinction, institutes for the revitalization of indigenous languages, including the Canadian Indigenous Languages and Literacy Development Institute (CILLDI), were established. [9] Now based at the University of Alberta, CILLDI had attracted over 1,000 participants to its summer school programmes by 2016. [10] [11]