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Murray Sinclair sought to build a pathway toward mutual understanding and healing for future generations
Wednesday, November 6th, 2024
In waves of paternalism and government intervention, Indigenous Peoples were moved off their lands, onto reserves or into the cities and, far too often, into the courts and prisons… That “reconciliation” entered the national vocabulary is a testament to his gentle persuasiveness… His vision for a reconciled Canada sought to unite the strengths of Indigenous Nations and Canadian ideals, creating a path toward a future where the best of both worlds could flourish together.
Tags: featured, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living
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Canada’s shift to a more regressive tax system, 2004 to 2022
Thursday, May 9th, 2024
Taxation of the wealthiest is a central means to reduce inequality, provide adequate shared public infrastructure and services that benefit all, and create opportunities for all to live a decent life… Despite the progressive personal income tax system, when we look at all taxes and income, the tax system is only moderately progressive at the bottom, flat through the middle and regressive at the top.
Tags: economy, ideology, jurisdiction, standard of living, tax
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Canadian university faculty getting older, more female compared to 50 years ago: StatCan
Monday, January 30th, 2023
Moving through the ranks, women achieved gender parity at the assistant professor level in the 2017-18 academic year. In 2021-22, women made up 51 per cent of assistant professors in Canada. The proportion of women as associate professors reached 44.3 per cent in 2021-22, five times more compared to 50 years ago. While nearly 10 times greater compared to 1971-72, the largest gender gap still exists among full professors, where 31.4 per cent are women.
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How the Indian Act’s ‘blackout period’ denied Indigenous Peoples their legal rights
Wednesday, October 12th, 2022
In 1927, the federal government introduced Section 141 into the Indian Act. It banned the solicitation or collection of funds to pursue a legal claim on behalf of an Indigenous person or group without the permission of the Department of Indian Affairs… Section 141 was introduced specifically to limit the ability of Indigenous peoples to act within the legal system… it applied to “every person” Indian and non-Indian alike.
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Canada’s citizenship study guide for newcomers is getting an ‘unvarnished’ makeover. Here’s how it’s evolved — from 1947 to today
Monday, June 28th, 2021
… in the wake of the recent revelations of hundreds of unmarked graves being found at the site of former residential schools in Kamloops, B.C., and Marieval, Sask., the federal government now says it expects to roll out… a more “honest” portrait of the country’s past and present… the guide will include a section outlining the government’s attempts to compel Indigenous Peoples to adopt European customs through policies “designed to end Indigenous ways of life, languages and spiritual beliefs.”
Tags: child care, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, rights, standard of living, youth
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Twenty Indigenous stories that shaped 2020 — a year of racism and fear, of fighting and hope
Friday, January 1st, 2021
Indigenous Peoples across the country faced intensifying endangerment of our lands and rights and took a stand against systemic racism amidst a global Black Lives Matter revolution… Through it all, our people have continued to be resilient in the face of calamity and uncertainty… Where do we go now? Do we pull the plug on reconciliation? Or is there hope – and if so, will we see it come to pass in this generation?
Tags: Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living
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We must go back and fetch our forgotten Black history
Friday, July 31st, 2020
Canada’s strategically crafted narrative has created a framework within which racial inequities have simultaneously been upheld and delegitimized through the erasure of Black experiences. It’s actually quite ingenious. If we can’t identify the roots of our systems of oppression, we will never dismantle them. If we don’t recognize the whole of our history, we will never learn from it.
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Canada has a long, documented history of racism and racial discrimination. Don’t look away
Sunday, June 14th, 2020
“Canadians have inherited a contested past. Like their forebears, they face conflict, struggle and loss alongside success, accomplishment and hope. They steward an acclaimed but imperfect democracy, a beautiful but threatened environment, a revered but relative civility. Their vision and generosity, wisdom and compromise will be their own legacy – for Canada, and the world.”
Tags: corrections, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, rights
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Murray Sinclair has tried for years to shock Canada into confronting colonialism. He’s not done yet
Tuesday, December 24th, 2019
Never trust the colonizer’s history… the system of control in Canada comprised more than just laws… The perfect crime is when you convince the victim that he’s at fault… Indigenous people for the longest time believed it was something wrong with us, that we were weak, we were poor and it was our poverty that caused our situation.”
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How doctors discovered the true causes of drug addiction
Saturday, December 14th, 2019
The tenets of personal responsibility, prosperity and an obligation to avoid harm that make up the prevailing American ethos have been eclipsed by the reality that systemic racism, a self-protecting oligarchy and political structures resistant to change… We know it matters less whether someone could take the nipple as a baby as whether they were born into poverty.
Tags: Health, ideology, mental Health, pharmaceutical
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