Posts Tagged ‘Indigenous’
We keep repeating the same, depressing tale when it comes to pipelines
Friday, November 28th, 2025
When global momentum toward renewable electricity and electrification is increasing, and with wind and solar being the cheapest forms of electricity in history, the federal government should be focusing on projects that spread the benefits to all people in Canada, not just fossil fuel billionaires… An east-west power grid with renewable energy will do exactly that.
Tags: economy, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Reconciliation includes recognizing Residential Schools are not the only colonial atrocity
Wednesday, October 1st, 2025
… Residential Schools were one part of a much larger colonial strategy to assimilate Indigenous Peoples and erase Indigenous cultures, languages, traditions, practices and governance systems… consider learning even more about the many other tactics. This way, we can acknowledge past harms, work to address current realities and look to foster meaningful engagements with Indigenous communities.
Tags: Education, Health, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
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Ottawa asks court to overturn tribunal order on First Nations child welfare
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
Progress on a child welfare agreement stalled when First Nations twice rejected a $47.8-billion deal last year, and when Ottawa called a halt to formal talks on the issue with First Nations outside of Ontario… if Ottawa refuses to resume negotiations, the Assembly of First Nations, the Caring Society and the National Children’s Chiefs Commission could present the tribunal with an evidence-based reform plan of their own.
Tags: budget, child care, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights
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Mark Carney’s economic agenda misses something vital
Tuesday, July 8th, 2025
Concentrated ownership of our economy, and the inequality and plutocracy that result from it, are causing deep distress among working and young people who feel — quite accurately — that the economy is rigged against them. Broad-based Canadian ownership of our businesses, resources and assets needs to be part of the growth agenda… Sovereignty isn’t just about control of our border. It’s also about control of our resources and assets. We can’t truly be masters of our own home if that home is owned by an American hedge fund.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, Indigenous, participation, privatization
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Ontario will uncrate a statue of Canada’s first prime minister. What took so long?
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025
The statue can acknowledge our first prime minister’s singular contribution to the creation of one of the world’s most successful countries. But the plaque can also acknowledge that Macdonald was flawed, and while some of his views were quite progressive for the time (such as voting rights for women and Indigenous people), other views, such as the worthiness of residential schools, clearly don’t stand the test of time.
Tags: ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, rights
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Five controversial lessons to cure health care from Jane Philpott
Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
Her goal in writing Health for All is to ensure “every person living in Canada has access to a primary care home, in the same way that every child has access to a public school.” But she acknowledges that it will require a transformation that challenges current thinking, practices and interests… 1. The federal government has a role in public health care, despite complaints from the provinces… 3. Phase out fee-for-service payments and put doctors on salary…
Tags: featured, Health, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health, participation
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OCUFA, Laurentian and the First (and Last) CCAA Proceeding in the University Sector
Saturday, November 16th, 2024
Laurentian University’s programs, courses, and professors were terminated without regard to their academic contribution to the University, nor with any regard to the community that the University serves. Rather, a simplistic comparison between revenues and costs was used to justify the termination of programs such as physics, geography, political science, math and philosophy… created and mandated to offer postsecondary educational opportunities to Ontario’s francophone, northern, and Indigenous communities, it was precisely these programs that bore the brunt of the cuts…
Tags: budget, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation
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Murray Sinclair sought to build a pathway toward mutual understanding and healing for future generations
Wednesday, November 6th, 2024
In waves of paternalism and government intervention, Indigenous Peoples were moved off their lands, onto reserves or into the cities and, far too often, into the courts and prisons… That “reconciliation” entered the national vocabulary is a testament to his gentle persuasiveness… His vision for a reconciled Canada sought to unite the strengths of Indigenous Nations and Canadian ideals, creating a path toward a future where the best of both worlds could flourish together.
Tags: featured, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living
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Ontario’s closure of youth detention facilities has not resulted in more support for young people
Sunday, September 29th, 2024
The move to shift youth in the justice system away from confinement and towards community is a positive one. However, without investment in community-based service providers to support youth being transitioned out of custodial settings, it is unlikely that youth will thrive. Such failures are likely to increase acute mental health crises and demands on ambulatory care within general medicine and psychiatric hospitals… [and] increase the number of youth who will come into conflict with the criminal legal system as adults.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, Indigenous, jurisdiction, poverty, youth
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This group of [Indigenous] investors is making major acquisitions in Canada. The results could benefit us all
Saturday, August 10th, 2024
… at least 111 Indigenous communities have obtained or announced equity stakes in Canadian businesses in the past two years alone… Wind power, oil and gas, solar generation and electricity transmission account for about three-quarters of the First Nations, Métis and Inuit investments… Indigenous ownership in projects mitigates land-claims conflict, reduces regulatory risks for all investors, and creates other spinoff benefits.
Tags: economy, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living
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