An EJSC Student Research Symposium with participants from Neskantaga First Nation March 5, 2026, 10:30-2:30, Helliwell Center (Osgoode Hall Law School) This symposium of student research and community presentations will try to make sense of the rapidly changing regulatory landscape across the Indigenous homelands of Treaty No.9. We will consider the environmental and impact assessments for the Ring of Fire roads, the ongoing Regional Assessment, the likelihood and consequences of a possible designation of the Ring of Fire as a Project in the National Interest (PONI) or a “Special Economic Zone” (SEZ), and the wide sweeping impacts on both Indigenous self-determination and democratic rights of the onslaught of “fast-tracking” legislation. Leaders and community members from Neskantaga First Nation will describe the Here We Stand camp they have set up on the Attawapiskat River, at the proposed crossing site for the mining road, their ongoing land defence actions, and will participate in a Q&A session.