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Supreme Court ruling should remind Ottawa of unfinished business with First Nations
This week, the country’s highest court ruled that native Canadians still own their ancestral lands unless they signed away their ownership in treaties with government. The decision was one in a long-running series of victories for aboriginal Canadians in the court system, which has also required that they be consulted and that their concerns be accommodated for resource projects that would impact traditional territory.
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Strong Supreme Court ruling on native rights
Canada’s First Nations have just won a historic victory in the long struggle to affirm their rights. The Supreme Court has ruled — for the first time — that they have a broad right to claim possession of ancestral lands and to decide how those lands are used… it sets out guidelines for future dealings between the Crown and aboriginal communities in the fraught area of land claims… Where native groups don’t have formal title, the Crown must consult “in good faith” before making use of native land, and accommodate residents.
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It’s time to give new life to our First Nations treaties
… pushing ahead with developments in treaty lands without aboriginal consent and agreement is reckless public policy, and creates uncertainty that plagues projects with legal, financial, moral and on-the-ground uncertainty… The honourable thing to do – and indeed the economic and environmentally smart thing to do – is treaty renewal that provides honourable implementation of the treaties and ensures that treaty rights and environmental protections are considered
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UN report on aboriginals misses the central dilemma
The entire constitutional, political, economic and sociological structures of aboriginal Canada have been based for many decades now on parallelism within Canada, a hard sell to the rest of the population that is strongly integrationist… The rhetoric and political pressuring of aboriginal leadership has been to disassociate their communities to the greatest extent possible from mainstream Canada by, on the one hand, creating parallel institutions while simultaneously, in many but not all cases, objecting to avenues for creating wealth on lands they claim or own.
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For aboriginal women, an inquiry is the quickest route to the slowest
… affected aboriginal communities are more interested in action than more talk… Our police forces need to reallocate resources to meet this urgent need… a national action plan… is needed to enhance and better co-ordinate prevention efforts that focus on potential victims, as well as potential offenders… Legalized/decriminalized prostitution is opposed by many aboriginal women’s groups and would only make things worse.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health, standard of living, women, youth
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Canada’s aboriginal well-being efforts ‘insufficient,’ UN envoy says
He urges the federal government to: Consult aboriginal people and address any ”any outstanding concerns” related to Bill C-33, the government’s First Nations education bill; Launch “a comprehensive, nationwide inquiry” into the issue of missing and murdered aboriginal women; Ensure the mandate of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is extended; Take “urgent action” to address the housing crisis both on and off reserves; Provide “sufficient funding” for services both on and off reserves, including in areas of education, health and child welfare
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United Nations report backs First Nations against pipeline megaprojects
“It is difficult to reconcile Canada’s well-developed legal framework and general prosperity with the human rights problems faced by indigenous peoples.”… he pointed to the federal government’s limited success in resolving land claims, reducing poverty, improving education outcomes, and dealing fully with the disappearance and murder of more than 1,000 aboriginal women and girls over the past three decades.
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What if race is more than a social construct?
Since the sequencing of the human genome in 2003, evidence of subtle genetic differences has been piling up. As our ancestors branched out of Africa, different groups of people evolved in slightly different ways to adapt to local conditions. The most successful of those people passed on their adaptations to their offspring. The variations in human DNA correspond quite precisely to what we think of as the major races.
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Court says Métis are Ottawa’s responsibility. Here’s why the PM shouldn’t Appeal
While I welcome the decision of the Federal Court of Appeal on the Métis nation’s special relationship with Canada, I favor working with the federal government to define this relationship through negotiated agreements. When there is no mutual will to negotiate, however, the courts inevitably become the only recourse.
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Why aboriginal audits miss the real problem
Demanding “accountability” and “transparency” that can never be realized in small and poorly-functioning tribal communities is ineffective and hugely wasteful. Were the government to accept its responsibility to native people, and become accountable for providing education, health care and housing, it would be the first step in eliminating the nepotism, resource squandering and entitlement orchestrated by the Aboriginal Industry.
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