Prof @UCalgaryLaw. Enviro, nat res, sust dev, dispute resolution, treaties, Arctic. Coastal roots, Rockies branches. Never played for the Mets, sadly.
Calgary, Canada
Joined December 2012
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New Post: Treaty-Making in Australia and Considerations for Canada
ablawg.ca/2025/10/22/treaty-……tions-for-canada/
New @ABlawg post re Bill C-5 / Building Canada Act. TL/DR - it sure ain’t impact assessment; it’s an unprecedented deregulation move in modern times. Serious risk that ‘move fast and make things’ results in ‘move fast and break things’. ablawg.ca/2025/06/10/bill-c-…
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Read the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development reports 👉oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/Engli…
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TIER has the potential to attract hundreds of billions of dollars worth of investment to Alberta. Read @emmadizon_'s op-ed on the importance of addressing some big challenges facing Alberta's carbon market. calgaryherald.com/opinion/co…
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New Post: Can the Federal Government Compel the Provincial Authorities to Respect an Indigenous Right of Self-Government?
ablawg.ca/2024/06/03/can-the…
Receiving this year’s Tidswell teaching excellence award is a tremendous honour. Serving as a law professor along side cherished colleagues and brilliant students is a dream come true, and I am continually grateful to all my colleagues, students and mentors along this path. 🙏
Join us in congratulating our 2023-2024 Teaching Excellence Award winners: Prof @davevwright and sessional instructor Kaysi Fagan! 🎉
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Unparalleled classrooms North of 60. Week two of @UCalgaryLaw Yukon course is underway and nothing short of amazing. A joy to be here with these engaged students and Profs Josh Nichols and @robert_rch
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Thanks to @RanjPillai1, the Premier of Yukon, for spending an hour with our students today in our Yukon field course. (How cool is this? At @UCalgaryLaw, not only do you get to study Indigenous treaties in the Yukon, but you also get to be taught by Premiers!)
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New Post: Two Decades of Nunavut Fisheries Litigation and the Meaning of “Special Consideration”
ablawg.ca/2024/05/16/two-dec…
It was an amazing day in Carcross YT today with @UCalgaryLaw students learning and engaging deeply. Wonderful to get out and about in the community and on the land. A huge thank you to @GCTFN for so warmly welcoming our class and sharing perspectives.
And we’re back! What a delight and privilege it is to be back in the Yukon w @robert_rch teaching this year’s @UCalgaryLaw intensive course on Modern Treaties and Indigenous Self-Government. We’re off to a wonderful start with a great program ahead. 🙏
Amendments to fed IAA exhibit a cautious approach to correcting constitutional concerns expressed by @SCC_eng. One aspect trends toward abdication: GHGs. While IAA structure unchanged, proposed amndmnts trim process, therefore weaken.
Both sides victorious; no one happy #cdnpoli
New Post: Constitutional Caution, Correction, and Abdication: The Proposed Amendments to the Impact Assessment Act
ablawg.ca/2024/05/10/constit…
Upshot on IAA amendments: constitutionality safe, if timid. About as advertised by Wilkinson and co. Will take time to unpack details & surprises (eg total hand off to CNSC and CER now possible?! See 43.1). S.22 factors intact. Fed assessment lives on. (Like the Leafs?)
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I’m back. ‘Cause IAA amendments. They’re out! Still working through them. But initial take - govt took SCC guidance seriously and meticulously tied everything back to federal jurisdiction and notions of ‘non-negligible effects (instead of ‘any change’)
fin.canada.ca/drleg-apl/2024…
I’m back. ‘Cause IAA amendments. They’re out! Still working through them. But initial take - govt took SCC guidance seriously and meticulously tied everything back to federal jurisdiction and notions of ‘non-negligible effects (instead of ‘any change’)
fin.canada.ca/drleg-apl/2024…
But this is not straight up concordance. We are back to CEAA2012 ish framework. New 62a is a signifcance determination laser focused on effects within fed jurisdiction. If not significant, no prob. If likely significant, GiC to decide if justified in light of a.63 factors. But…
Of course key is decision-making & public interest factors. Restructuring going on. The original 63b (adverse effects) and 63c (mitigation measures) are now both in 62a. And then original 63a (sust), 63d (s.35) and 63e (climate) are now 63 c, a, and b.
Confused? I made a table!
And here’s the new ‘limitation’ provision in s16 that explicitly ties the screening decision back to fed jurisdiction
