The legal sector is undergoing its own transition during the #ClimateCrisis. Law Society of BC is being asked to recognize the legal duty of lawyers to consider #climate risks to clients. "We are wilfully putting on blinders if we ignore these realities." thetyee.ca/Opinion/2022/0…

Co-director Estair ✨ on colonial land grabs in The Tyee: <<Van Wagner describes how the courts skew their weighting in favour of authorizations granted relatively recently to industry over the long-standing and continuous use of First Nations>>: thetyee.ca/News/2022/06/2…

📢 BREAKING! In a historic decision, the United Nations General Assembly just adopted the resolution to universally recognize the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll! This signals what we hope will be the beginning of a new era in rights-based environmental policy. A thread 🧵👇

MPP Sol Mamakwa is almost alone in the Legislature challenging the government's line on Ring of Fire. Indigenous peoples have to provide consent to mining in their homelands, whether Ontario needs the minerals for an energy transition or not. And he is right, we don't need them

Osgoode EJS Clinic is proud to support Neskantaga First Nation in their defence of their right to FPIC in the Ring of Fire

cbc.ca/newsinteractiv…. Neskantaga First Nation's sturgeon stewardship protection program, namekaa gaagige launched this summer on the Attawapiskat River, with this gorgeous image by Christi Belcourt

One of Osgoode EJS Clinic partners, West Coast Environmental Law hosting this exciting panel tomorrow

Looking forward to this exciting event Wednesday! We will hear directly from Sophia Mathur #StandWithUkraine, lead applicant, de-briefing the recent hearing in the youth climate Charter challenge: also Indigenous Climate Action @auntybre, @ecojustice_ca Nathalie Chalifour CDEDM | CELGS uOttawa and Prof Lynda Collins

Students of environmental justice must study the resistance of Grassy Narrows...

Last Wednesday, we took the class outside! Thanks to Osgoode Hall Law School of York University JD/MES student Celia White and MES student Michelle Kushnir for a moving presentation on the rights of rivers, while reflecting on our place in the Black Creek watershed

Osgoode’s EJSC student Lo Stevenson also attended the Conference of the Parties (COP15) last month. In Lo’s recent blog, they argue that area-based conservation should proceed at the watershed level to protect critical habitats: bitlylinks.com/IJ9koA9X9

This case is crucial to follow: why should police be allowed to serve companies by preventing us from understanding the impacts of extraction on Indigenous communities and the land? thenarwhal.ca/bracken-rcmp-c…

How law schools are creating a "pipeline" of talent straight into fossil-defending, climate villain firms: student debt is a crucial driving factor

Last seminar with the Osgoode Hall Law School of York University students in the 2022-2023 EJSC yesterday. Hard saying goodbye to this fantastic crew. Smart, critical, committed.

And congratulations to Osgoode Hall Law School of York University 2L student Lo Stevenson who prevailed over colleagues in a rousing game of environmental law trivia to win a copy of The Revolution Will Not Be Litigated (Redford and Gevisser, eds., OR Books)

Another great piece by The Narwhal tracking the many changes to Ontario’s environmental laws - all contrary to environmental justice, where communities must have a right to know and participate #onpoli #justice #environment thenarwhal.ca/ontario-enviro…

We came together with care/joy these past few days on unceded Algonquin territory to build community and commemorate Meinhard Justice, Ecology, Law & Place (JELP). Inspiring conversations, long lake swims and overdue reunions

Grateful to have collaborated with Deborah Curran to launch justice, ecology, law & place amongst friends #JELP9