Ng Ariss Fong, Lawyers

03/29/2023

For our fourth podcast leading up to Gitxaała's April 3 Mineral Tenure Act challenge, we're pleased and honoured to have on Tara Marsden to talk about the Gitanyow Nation's intervention!

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Tara Marsden (Naxginkw) Tara Marsden, whose Gitxsan name is Naxginkw, joins Ruben and Gavin Smith, staff lawyer at West Coast Environmental Law and

03/24/2023

https://www.ngariss.com/our-in-dispute-posts/podcast-gitxaala-nations-challenge-with-counsel-for-first-nations-intervenors/

Our 3rd podcast leading up to Gitxaala's April 3 Mineral Tenure Act challenge is up! Tune in on our website.

Karim Ramji, counsel for Nuxalk Nation and Ts’kw’aylaxw First Nation Alex Kirby, counsel for Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs and Nak’azdli Whut’en First Nation

03/22/2023

Tony Fogarassy of First Tellurium Corp. Ruben interviews Tony Fogarassy, chairperson of First Tellurium Corp., about responsible mining in the age of

03/22/2023

2nd Podcast! Ruben interviews Tony Fogarassy, chairperson of First Tellurium Corp., about responsible mining in the age of UNDRIP. First Tellurium is an intervenor in Gitxaala Nation’s challenge to how the Mineral Tenure Act regime grants mineral claims without Indigenous consultation.

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Tony Fogarassy of First Tellurium Corp. Ruben interviews Tony Fogarassy, chairperson of First Tellurium Corp., about responsible mining in the age of

03/20/2023

PODCAST! Gitxaala Nation’s challenge to BC’s Mineral Tenure Act

Lisa, Rachel and Ruben answer questions about this constitutional challenge, which will proceed to the B.C. Supreme Court on April 3, 2023.

Listen to the podcast here: http://www.ngariss.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2023-03-16-NAF-podcast-v2.m4a

Read all about it on our website!

https://www.ngariss.com/our-in-dispute-posts/podcast-gitxaala-nations-challenge-to-bcs-mineral-tenure-act/

04/11/2022

NEW BLOG | Advanced Costs: Can First Nations afford to prove they are poor enough to obtain access to justice?

READ NOW: https://bit.ly/3K9Edkv

03/08/2022

UNDRIP Article 26(1): “Indigenous peoples have the right to the lands, territories and resources which they have traditionally owned, occupied or otherwise used or acquired.”

Full post available here: bit.ly/3HObXlh

03/07/2022

"The proper question appears to be not whether aboriginal title over submerged land can exist, but whether or to what extent already-existing aboriginal titles over submerged land were, or were not, overridden by the subsequent introduction of English common law into BC, including the public right of navigation."

Full blog post here: https://bit.ly/3CmQe2D