Ottawa, ON – Please join the Indigenous Bar Association in Canada (the “IBA”) in celebrating David C. Nahwegahbow, IPC, LSM, as he is presented with a degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa (LLD) on June 16, 2022 at the Law Society of Ontario’s Call to the Bar ceremony in Ottawa, Ontario.

OTTAWA, ONT – Please join the Indigenous Bar Association in Canada (the “IBA”) in celebrating Kimberly Murray’s (IPC) appointment as the Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools. A member of the Kahnesatake Mohawk Nation, Ms. Murray has persistently worked towards justice for Indigenous Peoples, and specifically ensuring Residential School Survivors were heard and remembered.

Ottawa, ONT – The Indigenous Bar Association in Canada (the “IBA”) congratulates the seven members of the Independent Advisory Board who are responsible for identifying candidates to fill the upcoming Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) vacancy when the Honourable Michael Moldaver retires in September 2022. The IBA was pleased to, for the first time, be able to nominate a member to the Independent Advisory Board similar to how the Canadian Bar Association is able to nominate one member of the Board.

Ottawa, ONT – Please join the Indigenous Bar Association in Canada (the “IBA”) in congratulating Justice Jonathon George on his recent appointment to the Ontario Court of Appeal. Before this appointment, Justice George was first appointed to the Ontario Court in 2012 and then to the Superior Court in 2016.

OTTAWA, ON – The Indigenous Bar Association in Canada (the “IBA”) calls upon the provincial Crown to work in partnership with Indigenous Peoples to substantively implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (“UNDRIP”). This is urgently needed relating to decisions and actions affecting Indigenous Peoples’ lands and waters.