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Métis leader praises deal to start recognition talks
TheStar.com РOntario РM̩tis leader praises deal to start recognition talks: Distinct status would allow signed agreements
April 09, 2008
Kerry Gillespie, Queen’s Park Bureau
The head of Ontario’s Métis Nation wants a mobile health clinic that delivers services to remote communities, school textbooks that chronicle contributions of the Métis – and an end to discrimination.
“This will help us get there,” Tony Belcourt, president of the Métis Nation of Ontario, said of talks designed to lead to a historic agreement with the government.
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Province injects cash to jump-start rights system reform
TheStar.com – Ontario – Province injects cash to jump-start rights system reform: $14.1 million in funding to be announced today
April 09, 2008
Robert Benzie, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief
Attorney General Chris Bentley will today announce $14.1 million in one-time funding to “fast-track” changes to Ontario’s human rights system.
The cash infusion is designed to expedite reforms 16 months after the Liberal government enacted controversial legislation to streamline the processing of rights complaints.
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Barbara Kay responds to an Indo-Canadian reader: Multiculturalism is an invitation to fragmentation
NationalPost.com – full comment – Barbara Kay responds to an Indo-Canadian reader: Multiculturalism is an invitation to fragmentation
Posted: April 09, 2008, 3:18 PM by Marni Soupcoff
Barbara Kay
My choice of multiculturalism as Canada’s biggest mistake has brought me quite a lot of feedback. Few so far have disagreed with my conclusion — that is to say, I am sure many readers did disagree, but there were few amongst those who took the trouble to respond personally or on this blog.
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Fantino asked to attend rights mediation
TheStar.com – Ontario – Fantino asked to attend rights mediation
April 07, 2008
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Ontario’s top-ranking police officer is being pressured to attend an Ontario Human Rights Commission mediation session over an arrest made near a Six Nations occupation that some say shows the police treat aboriginal and non-aboriginal protesters differently.
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Barbara Kay: Multiculturalism was Canada’s biggest mistake
NationalPost.com – full comment – Barbara Kay: Multiculturalism was Canada’s biggest mistake
Posted: April 08, 2008, 6:51 PM by Marni Soupcoff
Barbara Kay
[This week, the National Post comment pages present Canada’s Biggest Mistake, a series of articles in which our columnists identify the most disastrous blunders imposed on this country by its policymakers. In today’s instalment, Barbara Kay writes about the sour, divisive legacy of multiculturalism. Click here to read yesterday’s instalment, in which Lorne Gunter wrote about deficit spending.]
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Ontario, Metis reach agreement
TheStar.com – Ontario – Ontario, Metis reach agreement
April 08, 2008
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Centuries of discrimination will come to an end with a historic agreement being negotiated with the Ontario government that helps pave the way for the Metis to set up their own health-care centres, children’s services and even get a cut of the province’s gaming revenues, Ontario’s Metis Nation said today.
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Tory approach to natives could mean protests, Martin says
TheGlobeandMail.com – national – Tory approach to natives could mean protests, Martin says
April 8, 2008
BILL CURRY
OTTAWA — The Conservative government’s “too bad, so sad†approach to Canadian aboriginals will be to blame if natives increasingly turn to confrontation and protest, former prime minister Paul Martin warned yesterday.
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Deux Nations Vs. The Mosaic
National Post – opinion – Deux Nations Vs. The Mosaic
Published: Monday, April 07, 2008
Rudyard Griffiths
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Natives’ frustration with Ottawa threatens to boil over
The Globe and Mail – news – Natives’ frustration with Ottawa threatens to boil over
April 7, 2008 at 5:18 AM EDT
BILL CURRY
OTTAWA — Smiling photo ops with aboriginals across the country have been a regular occurrence throughout the first two years of the Harper government.
Land claims have been signed, a residential-schools deal has been reached and new water-treatment facilities have been unveiled with much federal fanfare.
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Finley’s bill side-swipes Kenney
TheStar.com – columnists – Finley’s bill side-swipes Kenney
April 07, 2008
Carol Goar
Spare a thought for Jason Kenney, the energizer bunny of the federal cabinet.
The 39-year-old secretary of state for multiculturalism spends every weekend hustling from one ethnic event to the next, dispensing grants and goodwill in a one-man campaign to peel various minorities away from the Liberal party.
He is personable. He is tireless. And he is armed with precise data about the concerns and political preferences of each ethnocultural community.
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