Thanks to everyone who joined in ACPD-CALT's 2025 meeting at the Unversity of Saskatchewan College of Law in Saskatoon - three days filled with learning, connecting and engaging, - and more for those continuing with the CLSA meetings ending today.
Special thanks to Katie Richard (Alumni Relations and Event Coordinator at the College of Law) who expertly managed the entire event and USask Law Dean Martin Phillipson for his enthusiastic idea that we would all descend on Saskatoon.
We are indebted to Associate Dean Heather Heavin for local host work, and USask faculty members Jamesy Patrick and Sarah Buhler for planting the idea while CALT was in Fredericton with UNB in 2024.
Elder Joseph Naytowhow opened the event with a smudge and teachings in the Medicine Garden, beside the school, managed by the Indigenous Law Centre, reminding us of the relationships between land and people, land and language, and land and law. The tipi on the grounds of the College of Law houses a newly built sweatlodge, made of seventeen red willow trees. Together with Elder Julie Pitzel, Joseph closed the conference with song and stories of their long relationship, their work together, the way that relationships live in people - and some of the dangers of documentation and diagnosis. The warm generosity and welcome extended to us through these teachings called us to the work of reconciliation and the unique responsibilities and legacies of law and law teachers in the ongoing settler/Indigenous relationships. Kinanâskomitinawaw, hiy-hiy, Joseph and Julie.
To all the workers who housed, fed, transported and otherwise supported our visit, thank you. Saskatoon, far to the south of the fires which threatened and consumed homes and communities to the North including La Ronge, Lac La Ronge Indian Band, Lamp Lake, Napatak, Nemeiben Lake, Sikachu and Sucker River, was hazy and smelled of smoke. But people are returning home. The beauty of the place was alive. The Saskatoon Berries baseball team crushed the Medicine Hat Mavericks.
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CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW TEACHERS
L’ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE DES PROFESSEURS DE DROIT
L’ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE DES PROFESSEURS DE DROIT
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