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Realities faced by black Canadians are a national shame
… systemic discrimination has subjected black people to racial profiling by law enforcement, soaring incarceration rates, disproportionate poverty and poor health, the over-apprehension of black children by child welfare agencies and lower graduation rates. Black women… face a rate of poverty that is almost five times higher than that of white Canadian women, and are one of the fastest-growing groups in federal prisons. Underlying these injustices, the UN Working Group has made clear, is systemic racism.
Tags: corrections, poverty, rights, standard of living, women, youth
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Ottawa asks provinces to help reform First Nations child welfare
There are more children in care today than at the height of residential schools, [Minister Bennett] added. “That has to stop, and that will only stop by engaging with the provinces and territories and the agencies that deliver those services…” … bureaucrats listening to the people who provide this service as to how best to reform the program so as not to discriminate… how best to inform the program so that First Nation children and families are getting the service that they need”
Tags: child care, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living, youth
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Is incremental equality for First Nations Children compatible with reconciliation?
… the Canadian government is racially discriminating against 163,000 First Nations children and their families by providing flawed and inequitable child welfare services and failing to ensure equitable access to government services. When governments know better they should do better for kids, and this talk will discuss the history of the Canadian Government’s relationship with First Nations children and highlight the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling in the context of this value.
Tags: budget, featured, Health, housing, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living, youth
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Whiteness is a racial construct. It’s time to take it apart
Being white in Canada means a lower chance of developing cancer, hypertension and asthma. It also means being less likely to live in poverty… “White fragility,” … is the inability to cope with conversations about race that don’t protect individual white people’s sense of innocence… To hear an accusation of racism is to believe one’s basic morality is in question, which stirs up guilt and defensiveness, leading to anger and avoidance.
Tags: globalization, ideology, immigration, multiculturalism, participation, rights, standard of living
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America’s Sorry State Is No Accident
America is a mess. The world’s sole superpower seems cleaved by race, income disparity and social divisions. Worse, a disturbing number of Americans subscribe to beliefs that are ill-informed, insane or just plain wrong… The only plausible explanation for such aberrant American public opinion is that people in the U.S. are exposed to a vastly different worldview. A misinformation campaign of a scale enormous enough to account for the enfeebled U.S. zeitgeist speaks to how much some special interests gain in investing in and promoting such systemic ignorance.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, poverty, privatization, standard of living, tax
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Federal government failing to comply with ruling on First Nations child welfare: tribunal
The federal government has done virtually nothing to comply with a Human Rights Tribunal decision issued in January that ruled First Nations kids are discriminated against because of inadequate funding for child and welfare services… The quasi-judicial tribunal has now issued a second compliance order to force the government to take immediate action and rectify funding shortfalls
Tags: budget, child care, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living, youth
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When public prejudice can serve the greater good
Special exemptions and accommodations for religious believers, allowing them to do and teach things that are otherwise considered absurd and even harmful, have been a growing reality in Canadian life for a long time… some concessions to the religious aren’t benign or harmless. When spirituality infringes on the working of the legal, educational or medical systems, we have a problem – even if we don’t notice at first.
Tags: Health, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, rights, standard of living
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Indian status: Why are we still hanging on?
Gaining status or using status holds the federal government accountable for a history of neglect… It is a refusal to abdicate to the overbearing insistence among Canadians that our so-called special rights disappear. It is a small act of resistance, even if a potentially Pyrrhic one… First Nations… steadfastly refuse to disappear… Indian status remains important in 2016 and will endure for at least another generation yet.
Tags: featured, ideology, jurisdiction, rights
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Apologies to homosexuals don’t reverse the harm. Deeds, however, do
As Truth and Reconciliation commissions around the world testify… groups whose predecessors were abused, receive such apologies seriously… The appropriate word might be “recognition” or “acknowledgment” officially, of a historic wrong. That we can and should do – credibly… For homosexuals today, we should eliminate bawdy house laws, inequities in age of consent, and expunge criminal records, to be sure. Deeds, not words.
Tags: ideology, mental Health, participation, rights
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Six pervasive myths about Canada we must stop believing
Myth #1: Canada is a post-racial nation… Myth #2: Canada is a post-colonial nation… Myth #3: Canada welcomes and protects its Muslim communities… Myth #4: Canada is a safe haven for immigrants and refugees… Myth #5: Canada safeguards the rights of LGBTQ communities… Myth #6: Canada isn’t complicit in global human rights abuse
Tags: featured, globalization, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation
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