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Ottawa set to enforce standards for schools on reserves
The Conservative government is proposing an overhaul of education on First Nations reserves to bring schools up to provincial standards, with Ottawa temporarily taking over schools that fall short… Under the new act, the councils will continue to be responsible for schools on their reserves. They can maintain the status quo if they wish, but the act empowers them to contract the job out to a provincial school board or to a private company if they prefer.
Tags: budget, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living, youth
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Harper’s new omnibus budget bill a stealth blow to civil servants
The Harper government has once again resorted to sneaking ideology-driven policy in through the back door by cramming the change into Bill C-4, a 321-page “omnibus” budget bill… Apart from union rights, the bill affects Supreme Court appointments, employment insurance, workplace safety, veterans affairs, conflict-of-interest, solicitor-client privileges, immigration policy and more. There is no way MPs can give this bulky tome the study it deserves.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, Indigenous, pensions, rights
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A Green Speech From The Throne
“Democracy in the 21st Century hangs in a vulnerable place – between corporate rule, totalitarianism and hyper-partisan manipulation… prorogation of parliament, in 2008 and 2009, [was] essentially unconstitutional… To be legitimate, government must exist by consent of the governed; Parliament is supreme; The prime minister reports to parliament and not the other way around.”
Tags: budget, corrections, economy, Health, homelessness, ideology, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living
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‘The problem of Indian administration,’ then and now
The Indian educational enterprise is… is less concerned with a conventional school system and more with the understanding of human beings… At every turn, the report posited White goals and standards as the measure against which Native people were to be measured and in each instance, Indians were found wanting. The Hawthorne report revealed the logical fallacy that always has haunted Indian policy: that all people yearn for the individual freedom to pursue economic goals
Tags: ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights
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Stephen Harper ignores Canada’s First Nations at own peril
Prime Minister Stephen Harper needs First Nations on side if his government is to push through its ambitious resource development plans and reap the requisite political awards… with a few exceptions, [he] has been remarkably tone deaf about Indian, Métis and Inuit issues… apologies and UN declarations are cheap. The aboriginal leadership — and the aboriginal grassroots — want much, much more.
He has offended the mainstream aboriginal organizations
Tags: economy, ideology, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living
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Give native students a real chance
The First Nations Education Act, set to be tabled when Parliament resumes, is a crucial first step toward improving the dismal high school graduation rates among aboriginal Canadians and is long overdue… on-reserve schools should be fairly and reliably funded to bring them on-par with their provincial counterparts… legislation should pave the way for the creation of native-run school boards… [and] the bill should emphasize and support the development of native-based curriculum
Tags: budget, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, standard of living, youth
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All professions should be forced to learn about aboriginal residential schools: judge
The chairman of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission says all professions should have to undergo mandatory training about residential schools as the country tries to undo some of the deep-seeded trauma inflicted by the policy to “take the Indian out of the child.” … “This requirement should be imposed upon all of those who are treating aboriginal people… professionals who have not been trained in cultural competence,”
Tags: ideology, Indigenous, standard of living
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B.C. First Nations take over their own health care services
The federal government, which is responsible for health services on reserves, is handing over the budget, 134 staff, and the office keys in B.C. to a new entity called the First Nations Health Authority… The new authority, with just under 300 staff, takes over the federal government’s $377.8-million annual budget that funds nurses, health care-focused social workers, dentists and, eventually, doctors serving roughly 150,000 aboriginals across the province… If successful, the handover would provide a template — and a pool of experts — for First Nations leaders elsewhere in Canada
Tags: Health, Indigenous, jurisdiction, mental Health
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Canada Says No To UN Call For Review Of Violence On Aboriginal Women
Canada was responding Thursday to the UN Human Rights Council, which is conducting its Universal Periodic Review of Canada’s rights record, on a wide range of issues from poverty, immigration and the criminal justice system… Canada faced similar calls to better address the concerns of its aboriginal population in 2009, when it faced its last review by the UN body… Conservative cabinet ministers have blasted the UN’s right-to-food envoy Olivier De Schutter for saying too many Canadian citizens are going hungry.
Tags: globalization, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Native despair: face to face with ennui on a reserve
It’s the system that brings a people to that. It’s the Indian Act. It’s an imposed welfare mentality. It’s generation after generation of crushing isolation andpoverty. It’s the deeply ingrained belief that there is nothing else possible and that no one sees us or cares about us anyway. It’s the entire history of Canada and her relationship with native people focused despairingly on our most vulnerable.
Tags: Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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