Canadian Lawyers Abroad event to highlight group's indigenous rights work

Phil Fontaine, former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, will be the guest speaker at next week’s Canadian Lawyers Abroad Rights of Spring cocktail party.

The event, next Thursday, April 26 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Globalive’s SHAMBA Foundation in Toronto, will highlight CLA’s indigenous rights and justice program.

For more information and to register, visit the CLA website.

And check out CLA’s executive director Catherine McKenna’s blog on how the legal community can help Aboriginal youth in the aftermath of Attawapiskat.