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Human-rights lawyer opposes honour for right-to-vote pioneer Nellie McClung
Apr. 25, 2010
In a match that pits a modern-day human-rights crusader against a historical women’s-rights pioneer, a prominent Winnipeg lawyer is questioning whether Nellie McClung should be venerated on the grounds where she first fought for her right to vote nearly a century ago… While Mr. Matas doesn’t deny Ms. McClung’s influential role in gaining the vote for Canadian women, he does take umbrage at her prominent support of the eugenics movement… By the mid-1930s, it had formed the intellectual basis for the forced sterilization of mental-health patients…
Tags: disabilities, participation, rights
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CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP: A HISTORY
TheStar.com – news/gta – CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP: A HISTORY
Published On Mon Oct 19 2009
Before 1915 — People in Canada from the U.K. and Commonwealth countries were British subjects. Others had to live here for five years and be of “good character” to be naturalized.
1921 — A separate status of “Canadian national” was created under the Canadian Nationals Act.
1946 — Canada passed the Canadian Citizenship Act and became the first Commonwealth country to establish its own nationality.
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Indians and the just society
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions – Indians and the just society: Forty years after Jean Chrétien’s ‘white paper,’ we still struggle to reconcile the Canadian square and the aboriginal circle
Jun. 27, 2009. William Johnson
A bombshell. No, a mega-magnitude earthquake. The tectonic plates underlying Canada collided against each other. To this day, the aftershocks continue their eruptions.
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Disabilities not a reason to send a person to ‘jail’ [warehousing people with physical, developmental and psychiatric disabilities]
TheGlobeandMail.com – Life/Health – Disabilities not a reason to send a person to ‘jail’
April 2, 2009. ANDRE PICARD
On Tuesday night, on the grounds of the Ontario legislature, a group of community-living activists and former residents of institutions gathered for a candlelight vigil.
They were celebrating a historic moment in the evolution of health and social-welfare systems that occurred when, on March 31, Ontario closed the last three large institutions for people with developmental disabilities.
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