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The MMIWG report was searing and important, marred only by its inaccurate genocide charge
Wednesday, June 5th, 2019
… the commissioners’ otherwise excellent report was marred by the gratuitous charge that Canada has committed, and continues to commit, genocide against its Indigenous populations. Not cultural genocide, a concept that is broadly accepted today with reference to the attempted obliteration of aboriginal culture in the Indian Residential Schools, but all-out genocide – without qualification… the National Inquiry… conflated the recent murders of women and girls with the entirety of the Indigenous experience in Canada
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, women
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The New Solitudes
Friday, April 15th, 2011
March 2011
“The only way Canadians are going to get some control over the current political dysfunction is by demanding that the centre-left forces unite: the Liberals, the NDP, and the Greens,” suggests Michael Behiels. This is a bold proposition, but the likelihood of such a merger remains remote as long as political leaders continue to hope for majorities. A more promising option would be a formal coalition of the centre-left… Coalitions are democratic, legal, and commonplace. Among the fifty-one parliamentary democracies in the world, nearly 90 percent do not ordinarily govern with a majority…
Tags: globalization, ideology, rights, standard of living
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