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Some reserves can’t be fixed
NationalPost.com – Opinion/Full Comment
Posted: February 09, 2010. By Joseph Quesnel
Location is key. The problem with many reserves is that they are on marginal land, isolated far from highways and commercial markets. Some are fly-in communities where goods have to be shipped in at prohibitively high cost.
That reality makes it impossible to create a viable economy.
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The elusive right to be good parents
TheStar.com – Opinion
Published On Mon Feb 08 2010. Carol Goar
…many women, whose parenting skills are quite adequate, lose their children because of society’s perceptions. “They’re infantilized. Their sexuality is denied. Their decision to become parents is viewed with suspicion and alarm.”… They had never tested their rights. They didn’t want to go to court to fight society’s prejudices.
“We need people to shift their attitudes, open their minds,” said Khedr. “It’s okay to be a parent with a disability. It’s normal.”
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Greensboro, 1960. Kahnawake, 2010
NationalPost.com – Opinions/Editorial
Published: Saturday, February 06, 2010
This week, the Kahnawake native reserve on Montreal’s South Shore sent out eviction notices to 25 residents — most of them whites involved in relationships with local Mohawks — telling them that their skin was the wrong colour.
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Canada turns a blind eye to First Nations segregation
NationalPost.com – Opinion/Editorial
Posted: February 04, 2010. National Post editorial board
For decades, the prime directive of our country’s native-policy brain trust has been to protect aboriginal culture in little cocoons called reserves — even at the cost of undermining bedrock principles encoded in our Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It’s a fool’s bargain, of course…
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One woman’s crusade for affordable justice
TheStar.com – Opinion
February 01, 2010. Carol Goar
Judicial leaders wrung their hands. Academics wrote papers. Politicians tinkered, but didn’t solve the problem. And Heidi Mottahedin decided justice was too important to leave to the experts.
It gnawed at her that the right to a fair trial had become meaningless for millions of Canadians because they couldn’t afford legal representation.
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Fix infant health problems in Canada, too, Stephen Harper told
TheStar.com – Health/Healthzone.ca January 30, 2010 THE CANADIAN PRESS Two Inuit leaders say Prime Minister Stephen Harper should look to the Arctic if he wants to improve the health of newborn children. “We’re hopeful he’ll tackle this issue in his own backyard,” Pita Aatami, head of Makivik Corp., which oversees the land claim of Quebec […]
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