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Good news from Canada’s aboriginal communities
On some of the poorest reserves in the North, kids are thriving… One Laptop per Child Canada, a charity that provides laptops to aboriginal children… come fully loaded with HD video, YouTube streaming, 60 literacy programs, a physical fitness app, a nutrition app, a financial skills app, math games, activities that help kids cope with bullying, alcohol, solvents, family violence, drugs and depression and 25 books written by First Nation, Métis and Inuit authors
Tags: Indigenous, participation, philanthropy, standard of living, youth
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Time to bring Madiba’s values to Canada
A world of justice can be built only if we act justly with our opponents. A true community can come about only if we learn to work together, even when confronted by adversarial attitudes… Now is the the time for Canadians to look across this land, where chronic poverty, derelict housing, suffering children and avoidable deaths and diseases still prevail – perhaps only a street, a neighbourhood or a reserve away… Our aboriginal brothers and sisters await a vast movement of all toward justice.
Tags: globalization, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living
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Canada: It really is our home and native land
We’re hooked on the place we call home and so, very quickly, are new arrivals. First comes belonging to family and then comes Canada… In a testament to how well our multiculturalism still works, EKOS finds no differences in values held by native-born and foreign-born Canadians… [However]… the bonds that hold Canadians together are unravelling, leaving a nation profoundly polarized along fault-lines of age, education and the workplace.
Tags: economy, globalization, immigration, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, youth
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CAUT Statement on December 6 [Violence against Women]
This past twelve months we have witnessed our federal government’s continued failure to develop a national action plan to end violence against women in Canada. Despite support at the meeting of provincial ministers this past summer, the Conservative government has yet to agree to launch a national investigation into the missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls in our country.
Tags: crime prevention, Indigenous, mental Health, participation, rights, standard of living, women
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Tories’ tough-on-crime agenda means jammed jails stuffed with minority Canadians
Since the Conservatives came to power in 2006, the overall prison population has grown by 7%, to its highest level ever… the entire increase can be accounted for by rising numbers of Aboriginal, black, Asian and other visible minorities. “You cannot reasonably claim to have a just society with incarceration rates like these”… “incarcerating people has little to do with helping victims”.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism
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Economic opportunity ends First Nation culture of dependence
If poverty is the only lifestyle you know, it is very difficult to realize there is a way out… First Nations that are succeeding – strong employment levels, healthy communities, few social ills – appear to have gained a level of independence, and have achieved it mostly through economic development… The despair that comes with poverty is slowly disappearing, We know that to become a strong independent nation, we need to have strong independent members.
Tags: economy, ideology, Indigenous, participation, poverty, standard of living
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Canada’s widening gap a looming crisis
For 146 years, we’ve built this country based on a simple premise — and a higher purpose: that helping our neighbour, looking out for one another and giving everyone a shot at success is the best way to build a society. It is again time to focus on sharing our prosperity more widely — to make sure we continue on an inclusive path, where everyone feels they have a stake in their community and their country. And where they will participate and know that their voices will be heard.
Tags: economy, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, participation, standard of living, tax
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Meanness is a way of life in Ottawa
Today, the nastiness is deep and systemic… lack of civility has become a way of life in Ottawa — from committee meetings to tribunal hearings to everyday communications in which civil servants treat groups and citizens like Blackstock in a manner that suggests they have been actively targeted… society’s weakest are being hurt the most… “It’s vicious because there always has to be a bad guy … Meetings are sullied by derisive comments aimed at those perceived to be unfriendly to government… They’re bully tactics.
Tags: budget, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, rights, women
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Income inequality is hurting social inclusion in Canada
… 4 per cent of Canadian households control 67 per cent of total wealth, and… middle and low incomes have stagnated or decreased… Recent immigrants, visible minorities, aboriginal people, people with disabilities, seniors, youth and sexual minorities all struggle with exclusion… We need programs to increase labour mobility, and tax incentives for companies that hire and invest in young Canadians… a review of the Income Tax Act to ensure progressivity and fairness, and to stimulate job creation.
Tags: economy, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, standard of living, tax, youth
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Time to negotiate a schools act for First Nations
In effect, it defines for reserve schools the equivalent of a provincial schools act… The act says a lot about what First Nations must do, but it says little about what the government must do to make this possible. The act makes no commitment to adequate funding; instead it states only that the formula for school funding will be determined by regulation… the federal ministry has little educational expertise and no demonstrated capacity to manage schools.
Tags: budget, ideology, Indigenous, standard of living
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