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To improve Indigenous health, change expectations
We have created a state of perpetual crisis for many First Nations. Yet, in recent decades, we have become more benevolent; we have started responding to these crises, especially when things get so dire they pop up in the mainstream media, i.e. La Loche, Attawapiskat, Kashechewan, etc. But all we’ve done really is become more efficient at responding to crises, not at fixing fundamental structural problems
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, ideology, Indigenous, mental Health, standard of living
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Tribunal can’t enforce Indigenous child-welfare ruling, Ottawa says
The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal does not have the power to ensure its rulings are followed or to dictate how public money is spent, the federal government has argued in response to accusations it has not met a tribunal demand to end the discriminatory underfunding of Indigenous child welfare… “the tribunal does not have the statutory authority to enforce its own orders.”
Tags: budget, child care, Health, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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Ontario government unveils 3-year plan to battle racism
Queen’s Park will introduce a framework for collecting race-based data across various institutions, including in the justice, education, health and child welfare sectors — a move that anti-racism activists have long called for. The directorate will also introduce an action plan for black youth and new legislation to “ensure future sustainability and accountability of the government’s anti-racism work.”
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, rights, standard of living
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Black health needs to become a priority
Black communities are disproportionately affected by health-related issues such as mental health, HIV/AIDS, heart disease, sickle cell, stroke and hypertension. But they have yet to be adequately addressed effectively within the Canadian health-care system… policy-makers need to recognize that racism and violence along with the social determinants of health play a role in the health outcomes of black communities in Canada.
Tags: Health, mental Health, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Liberals revive funding for groups that take government to court
The new program will offer a minimum of $1.5-million a year for the defence of minority-language rights. The remaining funding will go the defence of equality rights, democratic rights, freedom of religion, expression and association, and the right to life, liberty and security of the person… the new program will be administered by an independent body, with two panels of experts determining the funding that will go toward official-language rights and toward human rights.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, rights, standard of living
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Ottawa accused of failing to provide for indigenous children
Last January, 26, 2016, after a near nine-year legal fight, the [Canadian Human Rights Tribunal] ordered Canada to comply with Jordan’s Principle, which unanimously passed in Parliament in Dec. 2007… Canada was ordered… to stop discriminating against 163,000 indigenous children and grant them equal access to services. But two national indigenous organizations say Ottawa has failed to properly respond
Tags: budget, child care, Health, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
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Ottawa should stop wasting billions on stock benefits for the rich
Since its introduction in 1984, the loophole has primarily benefited the very rich at a great cost to the public purse… Despite the tax break’s stated purpose, its beneficiaries are not primarily the employees of small, risky start-ups. They are, for instance, top bankers or the heads of mining and telecommunications corporations, the richest of the rich. In fact, more than 90 per cent of the benefit goes to the top 1 per cent of earners.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, globalization, ideology, tax
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Ottawa asks provinces to help reform First Nations child welfare
There are more children in care today than at the height of residential schools, [Minister Bennett] added. “That has to stop, and that will only stop by engaging with the provinces and territories and the agencies that deliver those services…” … bureaucrats listening to the people who provide this service as to how best to reform the program so as not to discriminate… how best to inform the program so that First Nation children and families are getting the service that they need”
Tags: child care, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living, youth
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Is incremental equality for First Nations Children compatible with reconciliation?
… the Canadian government is racially discriminating against 163,000 First Nations children and their families by providing flawed and inequitable child welfare services and failing to ensure equitable access to government services. When governments know better they should do better for kids, and this talk will discuss the history of the Canadian Government’s relationship with First Nations children and highlight the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling in the context of this value.
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Federal government failing to comply with ruling on First Nations child welfare: tribunal
The federal government has done virtually nothing to comply with a Human Rights Tribunal decision issued in January that ruled First Nations kids are discriminated against because of inadequate funding for child and welfare services… The quasi-judicial tribunal has now issued a second compliance order to force the government to take immediate action and rectify funding shortfalls
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