Aboriginal title pertains to the rights Indigenous groups have to land. Fee simple title refers to the most common way individuals in Canada own land. How do these different forms of title interact?

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A New Brunswick ruling that Aboriginal title cannot be declared over private land has been allowed to stand by the Supreme Court of Canada, giving British Columbia an avenue to win its appeal in the ...

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Two recent court decisions have brought renewed attention to the question of whether Aboriginal title can apply to privately owned (or “fee simple”) land. These cases provide different answers to this ...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, political activism in the United States and Canada brought with it a heightened awareness of Native American issues. The Civil Rights Movement was a catalyst (groups ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Wolastoqey Nation is claiming Aboriginal title based on where it believes Wolastoqey members historically used and occupied ...

Protesters arrive in support of the Unist'ot'en camp and Wet'suwet'en First Nation in Houston, B.C., on Jan. 9. (Chad Hipolito/The Canadian Press, via AP) The efforts of Canada’s indigenous rights ...

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday that non-citizens and non-residents can claim an aboriginal right under the constitution. The case was about the definition of “Aboriginal peoples of Canada” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Houses and farmland along No. 6 Road and Country Meadows Golf Course, which fall within the boundaries of a Cowichan Nation ...