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New hope for First Nations
on Sept. 4, with a public announcement in Ottawa. Kakfwi was flanked by Martin, Clark, Mercredi, Fontaine, former Supreme Court Justice Frank Iacobucci, Mohawk composer and conductor John Kim Bell, CBC host Shelagh Rogers and a selection of highly regarded native chiefs and elders. “We are a partnership of equals pledged to reconcile historic wrongs, committed to mutual respect and dedicated to the eradication of inequities,” Inuit leader Mary Simon said.
Tags: Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living
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The courts have spoken on aboriginal rights. Governments must act
TheGlobeandMail.com – Globe Debate Nov. 14 2014. Bob Rae Bob Rae is former premier of Ontario and a former Member of Parliament When chief justice Marshall of the United States Supreme Court presided over a majority decision insisting that only the national government, and not the state of Georgia, could make decisions on Indian affairs, […]
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Less wage discrimination for women, aboriginals, and visible minorities in public sector, not higher salaries overall: study
This study compares the wages of full-time public and private sector workers and finds significant gaps in the wages of women, aboriginal workers, and visible minority workers—and that those gaps are bigger in the private sector in every instance… The difference in public and private sector wages results from higher levels of discrimination in the private sector and a more equitable system of pay in the public sector”
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Stacking the odds against First Nations families
First Nations families and communities… need equitable government resources to do more… Ottawa’s current approach is stacking the odds against our children. It’s time for the federal government to fight for, not against, equity and justice for children. It’s time to face the truth. Action starts with fairness and opportunity for every child. And it must start now.
Tags: budget, child care, economy, Indigenous, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Parliament finally debates slain aboriginal women
… aboriginal women don’t have the same rights as other Canadian women… They do not have the right to security of the person, guaranteed in the Canadian Constitution… They do not have the right to attend safe, properly heated schools with well-trained teachers, Internet access and enough textbooks… They do not have the right to choose a family doctor… They do not have the right to potable drinking water in all communities… They do not have the right to raise healthy, secure children…
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A national inquiry would empower First Nation women
What really is needed is not just an inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women, but a broader public inquiry into how to empower the First Nations community, and women in particular. Such an inquiry should look at how First Nation community life and governance is contributing to the problem of missing and murdered indigenous women.
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An inquiry means legitimacy
… we must know why our sisters and daughters are being disproportionately targeted and we must develop a strategy for prevention. It is for this reason that we need a collective response. That response is the launching of a public inquiry… A public inquiry would provide us all with a more comprehensive understanding of the issue and a road map for ensuring that this stops… This is a national crisis that cries out for an informed and aggressive national response.
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Posturing is the only reason for a missing women inquiry
… aboriginal women were (and are) largely being victimized by aboriginal men, which means that solutions to the problem lie not within a public inquiry, but within aboriginal communities about why this is happening – and, of course, in a wider reflection on the disadvantaged situation of aboriginals in Canada… There were 33 female aboriginal homicides in 1981 and 36 in 2012, the latter coming after a large jump in the female aboriginal population… there is no epidemic of killing of aboriginal women
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The ideological roots of Stephen Harper’s vendetta against sociology
So what does Harper have against sociology? First, Harper is clearly trumpeting a standard component of neo-liberal ideology: that there are no social phenomena, only individual incidents… Neo-liberalism paints all social problems as individual problems. The benefit of this for those who share Harper’s agenda, of course, is that if there are no social problems or solutions, then there is little need for government. Individuals are solely responsible for the problems they face.
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Canada’s Ferguson? Aboriginal uprisings
… society fostered a tier of people who don’t have a stake in society. They are not participants in the economic system… People with jobs to drive to don’t blockade roads. People with their own private property generally don’t loot from and damage other people’s property… A critical mass of unemployed young men with no outlet for their mental and physical energies is a recipe for disaster no matter their ethnicity. Only more harm can come of this…
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