Posts Tagged ‘Indigenous’
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Aboriginals threatened by present, not past
Instead of telling aboriginal people to “quit blaming the past” and take “responsibility,” perhaps the rest of Canada should stop ignoring the past and take some responsibility for the present, to ensure that we may actually have a future, not simply as a nation, but as a species. Perhaps it’s time for the rest of Canada to become Idle No More.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, ideology, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living
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Wake up to the aboriginal comeback
The political, legal and bureaucratic cringing, prevarication, negotiating over which documents to release, when, in what conditions, only make the whole tragedy more humiliating for all Canadians, aboriginal and otherwise… But I have never heard a First Nations, Métis or Inuit person say they wanted to be seen primarily as a victim. That would be marginalizing and demeaning… What indigenous peoples are after is their full and proper place on this territory.
Tags: ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living
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What the premiers really want: A national partner
… the federal government says it prefers to stay out of provincial business (which makes all the more questionable its intrusive Canada Job Grant program). On occasion, it does engage in bilateral discussions with individual provinces on selected issues. But there is little sense of national with this national government… [Yet] Virtually all of the issues on the provincial list touch federal portfolios either directly or indirectly through their links to justice, transportation, communication and Aboriginal affairs.
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, standard of living
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Canadians see income, housing, education as determinants of good health: report
… poverty is the recurring theme that underpins most of these social determinants of health… Among the report’s… recommendations… is a call for Ottawa to launch a pilot project to reduce poverty through a guaranteed annual income… more affordable housing, an expansion of the “Housing First” approach to chronic mental-health issues that was developed by the Mental Health Commission of Canada, and the introduction of a national food security program.
Tags: Health, homelessness, housing, Indigenous, mental Health, pharmaceutical, poverty, standard of living
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Troublesome use of stats for poverty figures
… LICOs are not the best calculators of poverty. Any measurement of poverty needs to look at single parents, immigrant families, refugees and others as independent groups. LICOs oversimplify the complex issue of poverty by combining all these groups with the population as a whole, then coming up with an average. They do not separate single-parent families from two-parent households, or profitable provinces from those that are struggling. To boot, LICOs ignore on-reserve First Nations altogether.
Tags: ideology, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living, youth
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For Canada and First Nations, it’s time to end the experiments
The experiments are part of a long, sad pattern of federal policy that stretches through residential schools, forced relocations and the ultimate social experiment, the Indian Act, which overnight tried to displace ways of life that had been in place for generations. All of these experiments are abject failures… there is a way forward that requires a dedicated commitment across three key areas: respect, fairness and reconciliation.
Tags: Health, Indigenous, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Canada’s legacy of abuse
… that native peoples were once regarded as lower beings with no basic rights who couldn’t hire a lawyer, vote, or leave their reserve without permission, who were relocated and dislocated by government diktat, ignored, dismissed as children, starved, robbed of their land and even their children, who were physically and sexually abused… is not new… The abuse fits into a historical context, which needs to be understood, but it does not wipe the slate clean or absolve Canada and Canadians of their responsibilities to a people who have been repeatedly victimized
Tags: child care, featured, ideology, Indigenous, poverty, rights, standard of living, youth
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A Canadian genocide in search of a name
It is time for Canadians to face the sad truth. Canada engaged in a deliberate policy of attempted genocide against First Nations people. And the starvation experiments were only the first of a litany of similar such attempts to control, delegitimize and, yes, even annihilate First Nations to suit the needs of a growing Dominion… a genocide that began at the time of first contact and that was still very active in our own lifetimes; a genocide… no longer in search of historical facts.
Tags: child care, ideology, Indigenous, poverty, rights, standard of living, youth
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Best amends would be more aid for kids: Atleo
The head of Canada’s largest aboriginal group says Prime Minister Stephen Harper must acknowledge the “horrors” of nutritional experiments once done on hungry children by increasing support for native child welfare… Well aware that the children and adults were hungry and living on starvation-level diets, the researchers chose to use them as unwitting subjects for tests on the effects of nutritional supplements instead of recommending they be properly fed.
Tags: ideology, Indigenous, participation, poverty, standard of living, youth
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Groups want CAS oversight
“Ontario is the only province in the country that does not allow the ombudsman to investigate schools, hospitals, long-term care facilities, universities and police services.”… Bill 42… would give the Ontario ombudsman more authority over child welfare organizations… “The CAS tends to target low income families and families obviously living in poverty… but their rates of disability or Ontario Works aren’t high enough
Tags: child care, Indigenous, poverty, rights, youth
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