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Northerners remember Thomas Berger, a champion of Indigenous rights
cbc.ca
3 hrs ago
Avery Zingel
© NWT Archives/Native Communications Society fonds - Native Press photograph collection/N-2018-010: 29.
Thomas Berger at a Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry community hearing in Ulukhaktok, in an archived photo.
Judge Thomas Berger transformed Canadian law and Indigenous title and treaty rights, and raised expectations for consultation over proposed development on Indigenous land, say northern Indigenous leaders.
The former B.C. Supreme Court judge, NDP politician and lawyer died Wednesday, aged 88.
Former N.W.T. Premier Stephen Kakfwi said on Thursday that Berger s passing leaves a big hole in a lot of us because we knew him personally. ....

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