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The sad fate of too many native women
TheStar.com – Opinion – The sad fate of too many native women
May 20, 2009. Carol Goar
Twenty-six of the missing aboriginal women turned up dead on Robert Pickton’s pig farm. The bodies of 321 others were found under bridges, in rooming houses, on rural roads, in their apartments. The remaining 173 are unaccounted for.
This is one of the saddest – and most neglected – stories in Canada.
More than 500 aboriginal women have disappeared since 1970. Most were younger than 30.
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Rethinking the rules of citizenship
TheStar.com – Opinion – Rethinking the rules of citizenship
May 19, 2009. Martin Regg Cohn
We Canadians don’t wear our patriotism on our sleeve. Instead, we quietly stick the maple leaf on our luggage when travelling abroad – not as a badge of honour, but to avoid being mistaken as Americans.
Nationalism is not our thing. But our disdain for jingoism shouldn’t stop us from rethinking citizenship in today’s world: what it means to aspiring Canadians, and what we want it to mean.
We need not take a vow of silence about the oath of citizenship.
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Time to right some wrongs [human-rights commissions]
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinion – Time to right some wrongs: The very existence of human-rights commissions is, in itself, an abuse.
May 19, 2009. Tom Flanagan
For the first time in a long time, human-rights commissions are on the defensive. The Harper government is taking away pay equity from the Canadian commission and University of Windsor law professor Richard Moon’s report has recommended repeal of the commission’s right to interfere with free speech.
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‘Status Indians’ face threat of extinction
TheStar.com – Canada – ‘Status Indians’ face threat of extinction: In some communities, last children with historic rights will be born as early as 2012
May 10, 2009. Nicholas Keung, IMMIGRATION REPORTER
Leaning against a creamy white war monument on the 1,200-hectare Alderville First Nation reserve north of Cobourg, Wayne Beaver wonders how long his ancestors’ land will remain in his people’s hands.
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Good Health to All [Children of Low Income Families]
Connect2Canada.com – Canada Watch – Good Health to All
May 8, 2009.
Improving the health of children in low-income families requires well-targeted policy reforms, according to a study recently released by the C.D. Howe Institute. Research Fellow Claire de Oliveira identifies the policies that would, for families across different income groups, best address inequality in the health of children.
Read: < http://www.cdhowe.org/pdf/commentary_288.pdf >.
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How Europe gets the mosaic wrong [cultural tolerance]
TheStar.com – Insight – How Europe gets the mosaic wrong: The fairness and tolerance of newcomers built into our country’s legislative DNA keep bigotry in check
May 09, 2009
In this essay in the latest issue of New Internationalist magazine (www.newint.org), written largely for a European audience, Haroon Siddiqui, Toronto Star editorial page editor emeritus and columnist, argues that Canada has made a stunning success of multiculturalism, unlike any other nation in the West.
Multiculturalism is being trashed in Europe. My Canadian view is:
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Canadian values boil down to liberal democracy
TheGlobeandMail.com – Opinions/Special Commentary – Canadian values boil down to liberal democracy
May 9, 2009. CLIFFORD ORWIN
Our Minister for Immigration and Multiculturalism, Jason Kenney, has recently championed a major reform of the government’s programs for immigrants to Canada. He proposes that erstwhile Canadian citizens be better educated in “Canadian values.” And not just the fluffy stuff, like recycling (as in the current manual). But just what are core “Canadian values”?
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