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Jason Tockman
Jason Tockman – Senior Policy Analyst, Vancouver Coastal Health Research foci: Indigenous rights; climate change and health impacts; BC’s toxic drug crisisis Tockman is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Washington’s Jackson School of International Studies, with support from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of British Columbia, and studies indigenous rights and the implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in the Americas.
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Designated Indigenous seats: A possibility for political inclusion?
As the Federal Court of Appeal’s quashing of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX) showcases, a wide chasm remains between the federal government’s platitudes of…
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BC NDP-Green agreement commits to Indigenous consent
In their power-sharing agreement, the BC New Democrat and Green parties commit to support the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the…
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Distinguishing consent from veto in an era of reconciliation
An unfortunate legacy of the Harper era in Canada is that public officials and the media often conflate the right to consent for projects or…