Professor and Canada Research Chair in Law, Society & Sustainability, University of British Columbia
I'm a law professor at UBC who specializes in sustainability, environmental law, corporate responsibility and transnational governance.
6 reasons why displacing the homeless must stop, regardless of COVID-19
Jul 21, 2020 14:06 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted calls to suspend evictions of homeless encampments. Victoria, Edmonton, Toronto and other cities did so. But many were soon back at it. Forcible decampment of homeless people...
Coastal GasLink pipeline dispute is a nation-to-nation matter
Feb 07, 2020 05:46 am UTC| Insights & Views
There have been two encouraging recent developments in the longstanding conflict over the proposed Coastal GasLink pipeline on the territory of the Wetsuweten nation in northern British Columbia, though matters are on very...
The Alberta government is interfering in public sector bargaining on an unprecedented scale
Putin’s Russia: first arrests under new anti-LGBT laws mark new era of repression
Canada needs a national strategy for homeless refugee claimants