Archive for the ‘Equality’ Category
The aboriginal census
TheStar.com – comment/editorial – The aboriginal census
January 17, 2008
Many aboriginals in Canada live in dire poverty, with little access to the education, health care, housing and jobs that non-aboriginals take for granted. Only when these problems boil over, as they sometimes do in land-claim disputes (Caledonia) or public-health crises (Kashechewan), does the country sit up and take notice, if only fleetingly.
But the latest census data from Statistics Canada show this country ignores endemic problems among aboriginals at its peril.
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Jonathan Kay on the disgrace of native lawlessness in Ontario
National Post – Opinion
January 16, 2008
Jonathan Kay
How did it come to this?
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City should avoid major fee hikes
TheStar.com – comment/editorial – City should avoid major fee hikes
January 09, 2008
From swimming to mom and tot sessions, few Toronto services bring residents together more than the city’s 52,000 recreational programs. They are part of the glue that binds our community.
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4.4 million too many to be ignored
TheStar.com – living – 4.4 million too many to be ignored
December 29, 2007
Helen Henderson
One of the most significant signposts for 2008 got little notice when it appeared this month. But Statistics Canada’s latest national survey on the growing number of adults and children with disabilities should send a clear message to politicians in what could be an election year.
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Indians get Ipperwash park
TheStar.com – News – Indians get Ipperwash park
December 20, 2007
Chinta Puxley, THE CANADIAN PRESS
Ontario is returning Ipperwash Provincial Park to an aboriginal community and vowing to forge a new relationship with First Nations more than a decade after Dudley George was shot dead there by a police sniper.
Aboriginal Affairs Minister Michael Bryant said today that the return of the park to the Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation brings that chapter to a close and marks the beginning of a new effort to settle long-standing land claims.
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Tory bill muzzles minorities
Toronto Star – Comment
December 16, 2007
RUDYARD GRIFFITHS
The Conservative government’s ill-conceived legislation to increase the number of seats in the House of Commons while shortchanging Ontario voters has rightly been the subject of extensive public debate.
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Tolerance of diversity still a work in progress
TheStar.com – comment – Tolerance of diversity still a work in progress
December 13, 2007
Harry Sterling
Can democracy, the rule of law, and respect for human rights and cultural diversity realistically be transplanted into any society?
Although several countries, including Canada, have societies where respect for ethnic and cultural pluralism is reasonably successful, other nations have encountered difficulties.
Current developments in the violence-prone Balkans typify the problems and dangers some countries encounter because of ethnic or religious differences.
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How are we sorry? Let us count the ways
National Post – opinion
December 08, 2007
Robert Fulford,
The idea that there’s virtue in apologizing for atrocities of the past has taken firm root in modern society and made mass apology a commonplace gesture. We live with a new idea, intergenerational contrition, extended by people who did not commit crimes to people who weren’t around when the crimes were committed.
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When multi morphs into plural
Globe and Mail – Globe essay – When multi morphs into plural: Cultures can be sorted out; the hard part is getting ahead
December 8, 2007
Marina Jiménez, senior feature writer
Claverdon, England — Canadians have successfully proselytized for multiculturalism overseas for years. Scholars trooped to European capitals to give PowerPoint presentations. Canada was the multi-culti go-to nation.
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McGuinty gets credit for making native people a priority
TheStar.com – comment – McGuinty gets credit for making native people a priority
November 30, 2007
Ian Urquhart
There was one real surprise in yesterday’s Speech from the Throne at Queen’s Park: the section on the province’s native peoples.
“The government seeks to forge a stronger, more positive relationship with Ontario’s First Nations,” said the speech.
“They do not constitute the largest group or the most powerful. They are, however … the first people to call this place home.”
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