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Truth and Reconciliation is Canada’s last chance to get it right
Over $100-million of your money is spent every year to fund federal lawyers to fight against indigenous people being treated with respect. At the same time, $1-billion allocated by Parliament for spending on aboriginal social programs was simply withheld over the past five years. The combination of these two sums tells you what our policy is. Our lawyers and civil servants are still fighting to extinguish treaty rights as the price for any settlement.
Tags: featured, ideology, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living
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Blame game doesn’t help First Nations
… no amount of cash or bureaucratic engagement would or will alter the future for the next generation. We need a new model of engagement… the theme of all these recommendations is familiar — more money, more bureaucracy, no substantive change. To find the change we need the commission should have looked to the First Nations communities that are doing well, often without government help, and learned from their efforts.
Tags: ideology, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living
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Children should be at the top of the post-Truth and Reconciliation to-do list
The last Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples made 440 recommendations but is now a forgotten footnote in Canadian political history… There are consequences to conceding that “cultural genocide” took place – genocide is a crime that would, by necessity, lead to prosecutions. Harper has said he recognizes the UN Declaration on Human Rights as an “aspirational document.” But to lend it more legal weight than that would have implications on land rights, self-government, environmental rights and military policy.
Tags: budget, featured, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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How to ensure Truth and Reconciliation Commission report changes the country
Change does occur, but usually only when three things converge. First, policies change when a policy problem is framed narrowly and in conjunction with a “focusing event”… Second, policy change occurs when a narrowly framed policy problem can be attached to a concrete policy solution… the commission’s report contains a laundry list of problems and solutions and history teaches us that these types of reports are almost always ignored.
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission report
The actual document from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that culminates a six-year examination of residential schools and lays bare the horrors of Canada’s aboriginal children for more than a century.
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Truth and reconciliation: This is just the beginning
Reconciliation means repairing our relationship by honouring those original promises. We must restore that original relationship of respect, partnership and sharing in the wealth of this land. Governments must respect our right to determine what happens in our traditional territories and our responsibility to care for the lands and waters. The government’s legal duty to consult and accommodate us must be honoured and we must pursue the higher standard of free, prior and informed consent.
Tags: Indigenous, mental Health, multiculturalism, participation, rights, standard of living
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Four new books, including Joseph Stiglitz’s The Great Divide, look at economic inequality
“all of the economic gains since the Great Recession have gone to the top 1 per cent.” … life at the bottom of the pyramid: the almost unfathomable difficulty of surviving on social assistance; the disproportionate impact of government cuts on women, people with disabilities and aboriginal peoples… Reducing income disparity must not only involve eliminating poverty… but also limiting how much top earners can make.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, participation, poverty, standard of living, tax
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Why are Canadians subsidizing executive stock options?
… executive stock options “represent the most prominent form of legal corruption that has been undermining our large corporations and bringing down the global economy.” Canada compounds the problem by adding a special tax break that makes executive stock options even more lucrative — and costly to the Canadian treasury… It’s hard to think of another tax break that benefits so few people so much — and for no good reason.
Tags: economy, ideology, privatization, tax
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Alan Borovoy was a fighter for civil liberties to the end
Borovoy was best-known as the outspoken general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association for 41 years, until his retirement in 2009… He took his inspiration from the progressive movements of the 1930s and 1940s, which made him a civil libertarian and liberal of the old school. In the shadow of the Holocaust, he came to believe that “the best way to protect the Jewish people was to promote greater justice for all people.”
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, multiculturalism, rights, standard of living
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Barbara Turnbull set an inspiring example
… after the 1983 convenience store shooting that left her paralyzed below the neck and confined to a wheelchair. Simply by living as she did, she set an example for people living with disabilities, and for everyone else… She lent her name, her story and her energy to raising money for research into spinal cord injuries. And she campaigned publicly, often in the face of misunderstanding and even hostility, in favour of equal access for all.
Tags: disabilities, ideology, participation, rights, standard of living
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