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Canadian Human Rights Tribunal sides with children’s advocate, penalizes feds
A child welfare advocate says she has been vindicated by a recent ruling from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, which found a government official “retaliated” against her six years ago. The tribunal sided with Cindy Blackstock, president of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society. It ordered the Department of Aboriginal Affairs to pay Blackstock $20,000 for pain and suffering… The dispute centres on a December 2009 meeting at the ministerial headquarters in Gatineau, Que… the chiefs were told if I went in the room, the meeting would not go forward.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Canada must rebuild trust, and make amends for residential school abuse
Canada has already paid out $1.6 billion to the 80,000 survivors to settle a class-action suit, and another $2.5 billion to nearly 30,000 who suffered serious abuse. Beyond that, the commission urges a number of measures — both symbolic and practical, and some controversial — to ease the pain and redress the wrongs… At root, this report is a summons to change. This is advice to build on, starting with a push to improve conditions in native communities. Symbolism won’t mean much if people continue to suffer from neglect and want.
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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.
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Ontario won’t pay for diabetics’ limb-saving devices
Ontario will pay more than $100 million this year to amputate the feet of diabetics, but won’t pay $100 each for boots and casts that could save their limbs… “Every other developed country pays for it.”… The lack of coverage hits hardest where diabetes and poverty are widespread: Amputations are nearly twice as prevalent in northwestern Ontario, where the disease afflicts up to half the people in some First Nations communities.
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Race, Class And Neglect
… the riots in Baltimore… draw… attention to the grotesque inequalities that poison the lives of too many Americans… Shrugging your shoulders as you attribute it all to values is an act of malign neglect. The poor don’t need lectures on morality, they need more resources — which we can afford to provide — and better economic opportunities, which we can also afford to provide through everything from training and subsidies to higher minimum wages. Baltimore, and America, don’t have to be as unjust as they are.
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