Corey Shefman
@coreyshefman.bsky.social
Lawyer advocating for Indigenous peoples | I baked in a tent on TV | אַז ברענען זאָל קאַלאַמבוסעס מדינה
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New blog post alert!
Click on the link below to read "Gitxaala v. British Columbia: BCCA finds that UNDRIP is part of BC and Canadian law, and BC’s mineral claim system is inconsistent with UNDRIP" by Jesse Abell, Kai Chang and Kevin Hille.
www.oktlaw.com/gitxaala-v-b...
Click on the link below to read "Gitxaala v. British Columbia: BCCA finds that UNDRIP is part of BC and Canadian law, and BC’s mineral claim system is inconsistent with UNDRIP" by Jesse Abell, Kai Chang and Kevin Hille.
www.oktlaw.com/gitxaala-v-b...
December 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
New blog post alert!
Click on the link below to read "Gitxaala v. British Columbia: BCCA finds that UNDRIP is part of BC and Canadian law, and BC’s mineral claim system is inconsistent with UNDRIP" by Jesse Abell, Kai Chang and Kevin Hille.
www.oktlaw.com/gitxaala-v-b...
Click on the link below to read "Gitxaala v. British Columbia: BCCA finds that UNDRIP is part of BC and Canadian law, and BC’s mineral claim system is inconsistent with UNDRIP" by Jesse Abell, Kai Chang and Kevin Hille.
www.oktlaw.com/gitxaala-v-b...
My brilliant colleagues also helping to land a major win for UNDRIP and indigenous rights in the BC Court of Appeal today!
OKT congratulates Gitxaala Nation and Ehattesaht First Nation for their win today at the British Columbia Court of Appeal in Gitxaala v British Columbia (Chief Gold Commissioner), 2025 BCCA 430.
Click below to learn more:
www.oktlaw.com/gitxaala-nat...
Click below to learn more:
www.oktlaw.com/gitxaala-nat...
December 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM
My brilliant colleagues also helping to land a major win for UNDRIP and indigenous rights in the BC Court of Appeal today!
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Earlier today, OKT Partner Kevin Hille was interviewed on CBC’s Edmonton AM to discuss the implications of Bill 14, including how the proposed legislation would reshape referendum rules and remove the safeguards for Treaty and Aboriginal rights.
Listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
December 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Earlier today, OKT Partner Kevin Hille was interviewed on CBC’s Edmonton AM to discuss the implications of Bill 14, including how the proposed legislation would reshape referendum rules and remove the safeguards for Treaty and Aboriginal rights.
Listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
Very excited for my @oktlaw.bsky.social colleagues who helped secure this result by showing that Alberta separation would interfere with our clients' Treaty rights.
After the province tabled Bill 14 yesterday, which would have stopped the court proceedings on whether a proposed Alberta separation question contravenes the Constitution, the judge came out at a previously scheduled appearance today and just... dropped his decision. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Judge says proposed referendum on Alberta independence would be unconstitutional | CBC News
An Alberta judge says a referendum proposal on Alberta separating from Canada goes against Charter and and Treaty rights, in a decision given less than 24 hours after the provincial government introdu...
www.cbc.ca
December 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Very excited for my @oktlaw.bsky.social colleagues who helped secure this result by showing that Alberta separation would interfere with our clients' Treaty rights.
Exhibit number 32 in the "who did Carney think this deal was going to make happy?" debate.
In another rebuke of the Alberta-Ottawa MOU, UCP delegates passed a motion calling on the provincial government to abandon all “net-zero laws, regulations, policies and agreements.” @readtheorchard.org for @nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/01/n...
Alberta UCP delegates reject key provisions of Smith-Carney deal
At the party's AGM, resolutions passed that position the ruling party against emissions regulations and net-zero policies, EV mandates and greenwashing laws, while embracing coal power and new oil pip...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Exhibit number 32 in the "who did Carney think this deal was going to make happy?" debate.
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Living in the closet is psychologically distressing, exhausting, painful and just generally shitty and those of us who are out know that *because we spent time in the closet and remember what it was like. It is not a bad thing to “romanticize” being able to be out and authentically yourself.
December 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Living in the closet is psychologically distressing, exhausting, painful and just generally shitty and those of us who are out know that *because we spent time in the closet and remember what it was like. It is not a bad thing to “romanticize” being able to be out and authentically yourself.
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and like, no, I’m sorry. The closet is bad! The closet does not exist ~to protect queer people~. Whatever “protection” is provided by the closet is conditional upon having to constantly suppress who you are anywhere except for in private out of fear of homophobia & discrimination.
December 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
and like, no, I’m sorry. The closet is bad! The closet does not exist ~to protect queer people~. Whatever “protection” is provided by the closet is conditional upon having to constantly suppress who you are anywhere except for in private out of fear of homophobia & discrimination.
I don't understand how sports people can do this regularly. This is so stressful.
November 2, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I don't understand how sports people can do this regularly. This is so stressful.
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I’m enjoying the games and the drama, but I honestly believe if I was a real fan of either of these teams I’d be dead from a coronary.
November 2, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I’m enjoying the games and the drama, but I honestly believe if I was a real fan of either of these teams I’d be dead from a coronary.
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RETALIATORY TARIFF TO THE SHIN
CANADA IS ANGRY
November 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
RETALIATORY TARIFF TO THE SHIN
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November 2, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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The bullpens running in is always the funniest part
November 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
The bullpens running in is always the funniest part
This, and dairy supply management, are my villain origin stories.
No wonder the Air Canada flight attendants have issued a strike notice - they only get paid while the plane is in the air?!
August 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This, and dairy supply management, are my villain origin stories.
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I think about this constantly
July 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I think about this constantly
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Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.
Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"
June 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.
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“The government gets to render people it doesn’t like stateless” is not a position that has historically worked out well for the Jews.
June 2, 2025 at 11:57 PM
“The government gets to render people it doesn’t like stateless” is not a position that has historically worked out well for the Jews.
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Why do nation-building projects always have to be about hewing wood and drawing water?
Why can't nation-building plans be about knowledge or science?
Why can't nation-building plans be about knowledge or science?
Carney has 'nation-building projects' on his mind as he meets with premiers in Saskatoon | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney's main focus will be on project development as he sits down with provincial and territorial premiers this week.
www.cbc.ca
June 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Why do nation-building projects always have to be about hewing wood and drawing water?
Why can't nation-building plans be about knowledge or science?
Why can't nation-building plans be about knowledge or science?
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It’s odd to me that “we need to restore Christian values to Europe” is not coded as anti-Semitic even though it is, quite literally, anti-semitism’s original form.
June 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
It’s odd to me that “we need to restore Christian values to Europe” is not coded as anti-Semitic even though it is, quite literally, anti-semitism’s original form.
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Allegedly behaving "erratically" and being "armed with a screwdriver" will never justify a police execution. Yet the IIU will almost certainly clear the killer cops of any responsibility, and both the city and province will continue to shovel money at the force.
May 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Allegedly behaving "erratically" and being "armed with a screwdriver" will never justify a police execution. Yet the IIU will almost certainly clear the killer cops of any responsibility, and both the city and province will continue to shovel money at the force.
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The WPS found a man "covered in blood" and then shot him to death www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Watchdog investigating after man shot dead by Winnipeg police | CBC News
Manitoba's police watchdog is investigating after officers shot and killed a man in Winnipeg on Friday.
www.cbc.ca
May 31, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The WPS found a man "covered in blood" and then shot him to death www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Not sure what the point of journalists is if they're just going to reprint cop press releases and uncritically refer to police homiciding someone as a "use of force encounter".
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Watchdog investigating after man shot dead by Winnipeg police | CBC News
Manitoba's police watchdog is investigating after officers shot and killed a man in Winnipeg on Friday.
www.cbc.ca
May 31, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Not sure what the point of journalists is if they're just going to reprint cop press releases and uncritically refer to police homiciding someone as a "use of force encounter".
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Why did Conor Rae have to die?
Police bullets and subsequent IIU investigation leave trail of troubling questions in wake of teen’s death
Marsha McLeod investigates: www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Police bullets and subsequent IIU investigation leave trail of troubling questions in wake of teen’s death
Marsha McLeod investigates: www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
May 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Why did Conor Rae have to die?
Police bullets and subsequent IIU investigation leave trail of troubling questions in wake of teen’s death
Marsha McLeod investigates: www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
Police bullets and subsequent IIU investigation leave trail of troubling questions in wake of teen’s death
Marsha McLeod investigates: www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
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The Special Economic Zones Act, 2025 "grants Ontario virtually unlimited power to provide any proponent or business with the ability to conduct any activity it wants, in any area of the province the government chooses, without any regulatory oversight."
This is startlingly retrograde legislation.
This is startlingly retrograde legislation.
While BC is requiring Indigenous consent to new development, Ontario is proposing to create rule-free zones, anywhere in Ontario, benefitting whoever the government chooses as their preferred proponents.
www.oktlaw.com/ontarios-pro...
www.oktlaw.com/ontarios-pro...
Ontario’s Proposed Bill 5 Will Be Devastating to Indigenous Rights and Interests - OKT | Olthuis Kleer Townshend LLP
Monday, May 12, 2025 | Part 3 On April 17, 2025, the Government of Ontario introduced Bill 5, the dramatically-named Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025.[1] In this blog series, we w...
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May 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The Special Economic Zones Act, 2025 "grants Ontario virtually unlimited power to provide any proponent or business with the ability to conduct any activity it wants, in any area of the province the government chooses, without any regulatory oversight."
This is startlingly retrograde legislation.
This is startlingly retrograde legislation.
While BC is requiring Indigenous consent to new development, Ontario is proposing to create rule-free zones, anywhere in Ontario, benefitting whoever the government chooses as their preferred proponents.
www.oktlaw.com/ontarios-pro...
www.oktlaw.com/ontarios-pro...
Ontario’s Proposed Bill 5 Will Be Devastating to Indigenous Rights and Interests - OKT | Olthuis Kleer Townshend LLP
Monday, May 12, 2025 | Part 3 On April 17, 2025, the Government of Ontario introduced Bill 5, the dramatically-named Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025.[1] In this blog series, we w...
www.oktlaw.com
May 13, 2025 at 1:16 PM
While BC is requiring Indigenous consent to new development, Ontario is proposing to create rule-free zones, anywhere in Ontario, benefitting whoever the government chooses as their preferred proponents.
www.oktlaw.com/ontarios-pro...
www.oktlaw.com/ontarios-pro...