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We need a cohesive plan for Canada’s Resources
We need sensible environmental policies, as well as recognizing the fundamental need for balance between growth and sustainability. Most of all, we need a principled partnership with First Nations and between Ottawa and the provinces that moves beyond past grievances toward future opportunities.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, Indigenous, participation, standard of living
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Addressing the legacy of residential schools means supporting native families, not necessarily their band leaders
In the short run, at least, good schools, good jobs and well-funded social services will be far more important in addressing the legacy of residential schools than ambitious political agendas. Until First Nations communities are full of healthy families, other forms of progress will be difficult.
Tags: child care, Indigenous, standard of living
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First Nations must turn the page on residential schools
Through the pride of our culture and the strength of our ancestors, we can begin to move out from that embedded sense of trauma, move out from the darkness into the light of confidence in our future.
Through the truth, we must free ourselves from the bonds of anger and hate. We will never forget. But we must not burden another generation with anger and pain. We can give them the strength of our spirit, our songs, our languages and our cultures.
Tags: child care, featured, Indigenous, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Searing stories at residential-school hearings come to a close
The heart-breaking accounts – almost all videotaped – will now form part of a lasting record of one of the darkest chapters in the country’s history… For many, being able to tell their stories was at once cathartic and a validation… The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, under Justice Murray Sinclair, visited more than 300 communities after it began hearings in Winnipeg in June 2010.
Tags: ideology, Indigenous, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Ontario falling down on employment equity for visible minorities
More needs to be done to remove structural barriers within the labour market that lead to inequitable access to employment. Yet, none of the three parties have offered any policy initiatives to address discrimination in the workplace or to eliminate artificial barriers to employment for racialized communities and other under-represented groups… Also missing… are any measures to address the growing racialization of poverty
Tags: ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living, women
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Parliament fails aboriginal women
All that remained of the original report was its once-poignant title: Invisible Women: A Call to Action. For the families of the victims, it was an enormous let-down. For human rights activists it was yet another demonstration of the Conservative government’s refusal to stand up for vulnerable minorities. For aboriginal women it was a devastating blow. The police had failed them, the courts had failed them and now their quest for justice had been spurned by the government of Canada.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, poverty, rights, standard of living, women
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Toronto research centre takes a deeper look at domestic violence
… Agencies serving victims of domestic violence often fail to work together, leaving women to run from place to place to rebuild their lives… aboriginal women are four times more likely to experience domestic violence than their non-aboriginal counterparts… ethnic and cultural factors… accounted for only half the discrepancy. The rest was explained by poverty, poor education and deleterious forms of self-medication (alcohol and drugs).
Tags: crime prevention, housing, Indigenous, mental Health, multiculturalism, poverty, women
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Money alone can’t fix aboriginal education
Aboriginals have won the fight that there should be parallel systems: one for their children on-reserve, and one for others… The reserves themselves, in too many cases, are economic basket cases because of location, size, lack of wage employment, welfare dependency, breakup of families and a litany of other challenges… [It’s] it difficult to compensate for poor social skills, discipline or work ethic if a child is less than ready to learn due to family or community issues.
Tags: budget, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living, youth
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Harper finally gets it right on aboriginal education
The name of the new bill, “First Nations Control of First Nations Education Act,” signalled Ottawa’s acceptance that First Nations have authority over the education of their children… It came with a specific financial commitment… It empowered First Nations to incorporate their languages and culture into the curriculum… [but] The core funding… won’t flow until 2016-17.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
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A standoff on native education ends at Stand Off
Native groups want more money for education – and that’s what Ottawa has promised, to the tune of $1.9-billion. The federal government wants higher education standards for native schools – and the AFN has agreed to small but meaningful steps on that score… All of which leads to a less than perfect outcome: the two levels of government with the least expertise in education, negotating an education agreement that largely sidelines the level of government with constitutional responsibility for education.
Tags: budget, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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