Johnathon Cruickshank

May 24, 2021

Counteracting Settler Legal Systems:

Oral Histories, The Indian Act, and Reconciling Indigenous Law in Canada Originally published in Federalism-E, Vol 22 No 1, on April 4, 2021. See the original publication for sources, linked below. The incontrovertible differences between Canadian federal law and Indigenous legal systems can perhaps be best observed in comparing common…

Indigenous

10 min read

Dec 9, 2020

The City of Montreal is Letting Down its Most Vulnerable

Originally Published in the McGill Tribune on October 20, 2020. Ask the average McGill student to point you in the direction of Cabot Square, and not many can. You may have better luck with a Concordia student considering the square’s proximity to their campus. To many Indigenous people in Montreal…

Montreal

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Aug 12, 2020

Norway’s Lesson for Canada: Criminal Justice System Reform

Originally Published by McGill International Review on July 24, 2020. In 1938, a government-mandated investigation of the Canadian criminal justice system found the need for massive reform. The evaluation, spurred by a series of protests, called for “radical change” that would have seen Canadian prisons transition from a punishment-focused approach…

Justice Reform

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Norway’s Lesson for Canada: Criminal Justice System Reform

May 25, 2020

Effects, Reactions, and Implications of the 1969 White Paper

Originally Published in the McGill Pre-Law Review on April 2, 2020. Of the many accomplishments mainstream Canadian history lauds former Prime Ministers Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chrétien, putting an end to the era of Indian Act assimilation is seldom one. That is not to say that they sought to tackle…

Indigenous Rights

8 min read

Effects, Reactions, and Implications of the 1969 White Paper