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Universities ‘decolonize’ their courses and campuses
Public officials (with the regrettable exception of the prime minister) acknowledged the damage done by Canada’s racist Indian residential schools; promised to take to heart the lessons of the past; and pledged to build a new national partnership based on trust, mutual respect and a fair sharing of the benefits of the land. But they stopped short of specifics. The universities were commendably explicit. They set clear targets and spelled out how they planned to reach them:
Tags: ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living, youth
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Premier Kathleen Wynne should take on the mantle of reconciliation
The first step would be to… work with rural and urban Indigenous communities and leaders to identify which recommendations should be prioritized by the provincial government… Ontario could change how it educates… [with] new courses and curriculum requirements that properly teach the history and present-day situation of Indigenous peoples… [and] providing new funding for things like Aboriginal healing centres, alternatives to imprisonment and traditional sentencing, and Aboriginal-specific victim programs.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, Health, Indigenous, mental Health
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Accessibility: Province on right track
A more accessible society requires far more than just regulating and enforcing accessibility standards. It requires significant dialogue within our culture, something I believe is taking place in a hugely positive way and at an increasingly accelerated pace. The province’s recently released Path to 2025: Accessibility Action Plan aims to engage employers and address the systemic economic issues associated with accessibility by forging partnerships with the business community.
Tags: disabilities, economy, Health, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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Canadian Human Rights Tribunal sides with children’s advocate, penalizes feds
A child welfare advocate says she has been vindicated by a recent ruling from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, which found a government official “retaliated” against her six years ago. The tribunal sided with Cindy Blackstock, president of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society. It ordered the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to pay Blackstock $20,000 for pain and suffering… The dispute centres on a December 2009 meeting at the ministerial headquarters in Gatineau, Que… the chiefs were told if I went in the room, the meeting would not go forward.”
Tags: child care, featured, ideology, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living
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Lack of trained nurses in First Nations communities underlines Ottawa’s neglect
The auditor general’s findings speak to a pattern of neglect that leaves communities “severely marginalized”… Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government has failed to ensure that First Nations people living in remote areas get the medical treatment they need. The nursing shortage is symptomatic of a wider pattern of federal neglect that reaches across native life… From treaty rights to schooling and health care, the Crown is betraying a people’s trust.
Tags: Health, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living
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What are the police for?
Defenders of the OPP’s conduct, and this includes former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty, say that the police did a great job keeping the peace in Caledonia, but here’s the thing — that’s not their job. Police officers enforce the law. The military keeps the peace — and if the situation was truly as bad as Mr. Lewis says… the military should have been the ones on the ground… The OPP was given an impossible task there. The scandal isn’t that it made mistakes or failed to keep everyone happy. It’s that it was put in that position in the first place.
Tags: crime prevention, featured, ideology, Indigenous, rights, standard of living
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Some insights into how Canada’s middle class is really faring
The trend is clear: All three measures of inequality show increases over time, with much of the widening gap occurring in the 1980s and 1990s… Those at the upper end of the middle class – such as public-service professionals – are typically better paid and share characteristics with top-earning professionals, such as valuable pension plans. The working class, however, such as support staff, share characteristics with lower-income earners, including “higher job insecurity and the threat of automation.”
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, participation, standard of living
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A breakthrough in teaching aboriginal children should be funded by Ottawa
Reading proficiency at the age of 9 or 10, in particular, “is the most reliable school-based predictor of high school graduation,” according to the program report… Martin’s pioneering initiative has done more than make vulnerable children at two schools achieve an academic breakthrough. It shows how thousands of aboriginal children across Canada can be helped. The way forward is clear. What’s needed now is bold investment by Ottawa.
Tags: budget, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
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Canada fails First Nations children
The historic motion [Jordan’s Principle] endorsed the idea that meeting the health needs of indigenous children should be a top priority. And Parliament made it clear that the issue of which level of government should pay for health services should not impede the delivery of those services. Unfortunately, much more work still needs to be done on this file. Last week, a bracing report was published, laying bare the social inequities that continue to deprive First Nations children of timely care and assistance.
Tags: budget, Health, housing, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, poverty, standard of living, youth
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The era of offshore bank secrecy is dead
By 2018 Canada will join an agreement with 85 other countries including traditional tax havens such as Liechtenstein, the British Virgin Islands, and the Cayman Islands. The information being exchanged includes account balances, interest payments, and beneficial ownership… Keeping an offshore account is not illegal. Not reporting the money to Canada and not paying your fair share of taxes is illegal.
Tags: economy, globalization, tax
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