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Ontario Increases Support for Indigenous Postsecondary Education
Wednesday, March 4th, 2020
Ontario is… investing in Indigenous students and their potential with increased funding to Indigenous Institutes to provide postsecondary education and training for hundreds of learners… “Indigenous Institutes are a critical part of our public education system because they provide a culturally holistic learning environment that prepares learners for success in the workforce… “Indigenous Institutes play a significant role in serving the learners, communities and regional areas in which they operate”
Tags: budget, Indigenous, participation, youth
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For both Alberta and Indigenous peoples, now is the winter of our disrespect
Friday, February 14th, 2020
… this isn’t about a mine any longer, or the environment, or the economy: it’s about respect… the closer you approach respect – reconciliation is another word – as an objective, in haste to atone for past sins, the faster it recedes. For without grievances, there is no leverage.
Tags: economy, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights
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Ottawa must tackle the tragic overrepresentation of Indigenous people in prisons
Wednesday, January 29th, 2020
Every conceivable measure we have to judge how a population is doing shows Canada is failing Indigenous peoples: child welfare, poverty, addictions and mental health, housing and clean water, education and employment, and incarceration… Indigenous inmates are disproportionately placed in maximum security and have been held longer in solitary confinement. They serve a higher proportion of their sentence behind bars before being granted parole, and are poorly prepared for their release back into the community.
Tags: corrections, Indigenous, standard of living
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Why does the Indigenous rate of incarceration only grow?
Friday, January 24th, 2020
Conservative policies stripped sentencing judges and parole boards of discretion, adding mandatory minimums and other limits on their ability to consider specific facts and risks of individual cases. While the Liberals opposed many of these reforms during campaign season, they have done little to address the harmful legacy… we have not learned enough from community-based and Indigenous legal traditions that offer more promising methods of responding to wrongdoing.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights
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A shocking report details how Ontario’s most vulnerable youths are shuttled from child protection to the justice system
Sunday, January 19th, 2020
The researchers developed protocols and best practices for key players in the child protection and justice system, all designed to break the child-welfare-to-prison pipeline… [including] more reasonable bail conditions, trauma-informed training for group home caregivers, “anti-oppressive” practices, the use of restorative justice, and encouraging police to simply caution youths in care when called for an incident or send them to “diversion” programs… rather than lay charges
Tags: child care, corrections, featured, ideology, Indigenous, mental Health, youth
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Minister says change won’t come ‘overnight’ as Indigenous child-welfare law takes effect
Friday, January 3rd, 2020
“Each community has different capacities and preparedness… Until Indigenous communities pass their own child-services laws, Miller said, services currently provided to Indigenous children will continue as before… Some Indigenous communities have expressed concerns that no stable funding to help them take over child-welfare services
Tags: budget, Indigenous, jurisdiction, youth
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How can prisoners be rehabilitated without proper access to education?
Wednesday, January 1st, 2020
CSC policy makes clear that prison staff are expected to facilitate access to postsecondary schooling. But that policy conflicts with another: the total ban on inmate access to the internet… As the federal Office of the Correctional Investigator put it in a 2016 report: “It’s hard to understand how an environment deprived of computers and Internet, and thereby deprived of information, can be rehabilitative.”
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights
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Murray Sinclair has tried for years to shock Canada into confronting colonialism. He’s not done yet
Tuesday, December 24th, 2019
Never trust the colonizer’s history… the system of control in Canada comprised more than just laws… The perfect crime is when you convince the victim that he’s at fault… Indigenous people for the longest time believed it was something wrong with us, that we were weak, we were poor and it was our poverty that caused our situation.”
Tags: ideology, Indigenous, participation, rights
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Putting economic and social rights at the heart of policy-making
Wednesday, December 4th, 2019
Too many people are currently being left behind as changing social, economic, and political tides wash past them… we must help people and communities weather these changes by strengthening how we think about, and develop, public policy. We can do this by prioritizing the human rights and dignities of all Canadians. Not only civil and political rights, but economic and social rights, too.
Tags: featured, Health, homelessness, ideology, Indigenous, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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What Don Cherry might not know about all those who fought for freedom
Sunday, November 17th, 2019
Their service is rendered even more special by their willingness to fight for the freedom of others in spite of their own exclusion, and the hope that their sacrifice would help our country achieve equality. That fight for equal treatment continues to this day… We need to tell the complete story of the wars, one that includes the sacrifices made by people of all colours and creeds in shaping the Canada we pride ourselves on today.
Tags: featured, globalization, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, rights
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