Ms. Que Banh<p>*The <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Saugeen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Saugeen</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FirstPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPeoples</span></a> won their lawsuit 👏 Appeals court dismissed <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Ontario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ontario</span></a> government's appeal. Justice was finally served.*</p><p>Ontario's top court has upheld a lower court's ruling that a strip of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SaubleBeach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaubleBeach</span></a>, a popular Ontario tourist spot, has always belonged to a local <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FirstNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNation</span></a>.</p><p>In a 121-page decision on Monday, the Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed appeals brought by the Municipality of South <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BrucePeninsula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrucePeninsula</span></a>, the Ontario government, and several local families to the April 2023 ruling by Superior Court Justice Susan Vella.</p><p>"Justice was done today," said Saugeen First Nation Chief Conrad Ritchie in a statement, calling it a "powerful moment" for the Saugeen community.</p><p>In her 2023 decision, Vella ruled that "Chi-Cmiinh," a roughly two-kilometre strip of beach at the northern end of Saugeen Reserve No. 29, had always belonged to Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation, and that the federal government breached its treaty rights.</p><p>The Crown, Vella wrote, failed to protect and preserve the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/treaty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>treaty</span></a> it signed in 1854, Treaty 72, in which the First Nation and neighbouring <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Chippewas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chippewas</span></a> of Nawash surrendered Saugeen Peninsula, excluding five <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> reserve territories. One would become <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ReserveNo29" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReserveNo29</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7405601" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">cbc.ca/amp/1.7405601</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/GoodNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoodNews</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CDNpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDNpoli</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ONpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ONpoli</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FirstNationsJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNationsJustice</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/JusticeServed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JusticeServed</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NativeCanada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeCanada</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/IndigenousCanada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousCanada</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/IndigenousRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousRights</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/GovernmentOfCanada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GovernmentOfCanada</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/HonourTheTreaties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HonourTheTreaties</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Legal</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CanadianLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CanadianLaw</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TruthBeforeReconciliation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TruthBeforeReconciliation</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/OntarioLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OntarioLaw</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/lawsuit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lawsuit</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/UNDRIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UNDRIP</span></a></p>