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Aboriginal revenue sharing is an idea whose time has come
Aboriginal people deserve a financial return from resource development in their traditional territories and revenue sharing is an obvious way to make that happen… it may be the only significant tool at the disposal of aboriginal communities seeking to address the major infrastructure challenges they face around housing, roads and water supplies. … either through negotiations or legal action, resource revenue sharing will soon be commonplace in Canada.
Tags: economy, featured, ideology, Indigenous, participation, standard of living
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Real change for aboriginal women begins with the end of prostitution
On Dec. 6, 2014, Canada’s new prostitution legislation came into effect. Prostitution survivors, aboriginal women’s groups, anti-violence workers, and equality rights advocates and scholars celebrated the decision to criminalize johns, pimps, and third-party advertising for sexual services, and to decriminalize prostituted women in most circumstances… While not quite yet the “Nordic Model” of prostitution policy, we are beginning to move in the direction of equality for all women by working to abolish prostitution.
Tags: crime prevention, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living, women
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Good news on the reserve [policing]
Compared to non-aboriginals the overall crime rate of aboriginals is 3.8 times higher, violent crime 5.8 times higher, assault 7 times higher, sexual assault 5.4 times higher, and drug trafficking 3.8 times higher… FNAs [First Nations Authorities] can be viewed as a particularly successful model for aboriginal communities. Good examples include the Six Nations Police Service and Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service in Ontario.
Tags: crime prevention, Indigenous, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Breaking down bureaucratic hurdles to create a safe haven for abused children
In March, representatives from advocacy centres across the country will convene in Calgary with Sheldon Kennedy Child Advocacy Centre representatives to establish national CAC standards for child interviews and other practices… “This was about creating a different culture, a different environment, a different practice and a different outcome for kids,” Kennedy insists. “You have to keep pushing all the time.”
Tags: child care, crime prevention, Health, Indigenous, mental Health, standard of living
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Canada needs a new partnership with indigenous peoples
We want to forge a new partnership. To be partners in an idea — that a better Canada is in reach. To be partners in a belief — that notwithstanding the deplorable inequity that continues in this country that, with goodwill and trust, progress is still possible. To be partners in a commitment — one that honours aboriginal treaties and rights and is dedicated to reconciliation. And to be partners in a dream — where indigenous people… share in the bounty of this magnificent country and where their collective contributions are recognized, valued and celebrated.
Tags: featured, ideology, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living
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A fair deal for natives
The concept is simple: Governments receive financial benefits, in the forms of royalties, from companies developing natural resources. The governments, in turn, allocate a portion of the resource revenues to one or more First Nations. In this way, First Nations become beneficiaries of economic development on their traditional territories… National Chief Bellegarde is right to point to prosperity sharing as the foundation for a new and lasting relationship between Aboriginal people and the rest of Canada.
Tags: budget, economy, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living
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The problem isn’t aboriginals as Stephen Harper suggests. It’s us
We are either indifferent to the indigenous peoples or sympathetic to them. But they do not want our sympathy. They want their rights — as spelled out in the treaties between them and the Crown… What’s to be done? Stop fighting land claims and wasting hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money. The Supreme Court and lower courts have repeatedly ruled in favour of the aboriginals.
Tags: ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights
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Canada’s unheard aboriginal narrative
… aboriginal peoples have been making a remarkable recovery and are now on the verge of taking a prominent place in this country… There’s a new aboriginal elite. We have Inuit and Cree corporations. Supreme Court victories are giving aboriginals more control over the commodity-rich lands of the North. Climate change is playing to their agenda. The aboriginal population is rapidly increasing, as is aboriginal youth enrolment in universities and colleges.
Tags: economy, ideology, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living
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Stephen Lewis roars once more in takedown of Stephen Harper government
The former Ontario NDP leader, United Nations ambassador and lifelong human rights advocate took aim at the “pre-paleolithic Neanderthals” in office and their role in the decline of Parliament, the suppression of dissent, the plight of First Nations, their blinkered climate-change policy and our plummeting world status… He joins a line of political elders who are taking increasingly harsh stock of this government’s performance.
Tags: ideology, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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