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Friday, December 21st, 2012
Dec 21, 2012
Politicians won’t be the ones to fix what’s wrong with Canada and its relationship with indigenous peoples. This is a job for regular people, dealing with one another as human beings, and right now indigenous people in this country are not being treated humanely. So I’ve compiled a list of stereotypes and lies that I think need to stop being spread and passed around as truth. Where possible, I’ve linked information to help dispel these harmful myths.
Tags: Indigenous, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Monday, December 10th, 2012
8 Dec 2012
In October the UN’s Committee on the Rights of the Child released recommendations on Canada’s adherence to the convention, its first report since 2003. Many recommendations were unchanged from those made in 2003… “Canada should be able to put together a framework that would then allow to move ahead and identify the big disparities in services and in funding that occur…
Tags: child care, Indigenous, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Friday, December 7th, 2012
Dec. 07 2012
three principles will dominate the AFN’s approach to the bill: 1. First Nations are entitled to adequate and predictable funding that meets the needs of every native on reserve. 2. Any legislation that affects first nations education on reserve must have the consent of the chiefs before it can be introduced into Parliament, much less passed by it. 3. The preservation of native culture, especially native languages, must be at the heart of any native curriculum.
Tags: budget, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, youth
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2012
Dec. 03 2012
The commission examining the treatment of aboriginal children at Canada’s residential schools is taking the federal government to court for refusing to release millions of documents that were supposed to form a permanent and public record of the abuses committed.
Tags: ideology, Indigenous, participation, rights
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Sunday, October 14th, 2012
October 5, 2012
Rather than work with First Nations groups, it [the Harper government] is in confrontation mode. It fiddles with the math and blames the victim. Duncan also left the veiled threat that legislation would be forthcoming, without making it clear what that would be or how it would affect our treaties and aboriginal rights. Despite all the smoke and mirrors, education remains seriously underfunded in First Nations communities.
Tags: budget, child care, Indigenous, poverty, rights, youth
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Friday, September 28th, 2012
September 27, 2012
Local First Nations near the Ring of Fire are rightly worried… Ontario can either continue to let individual companies launch projects that will shape the future of the region — with the help of our tax dollars — or it can bring all interested parties together to build a long term plan that takes everyone’s needs and concerns into account, based on the best available science.
Tags: economy, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living, tax
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Monday, August 27th, 2012
22 August 2012
The old approach of limited, back-end consultation must be swept away. It only leads to frustration, injunctions and conflict. The new standard, as articulated in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, is “free, prior and informed consent.” From a practical standpoint, this means “engage early and engage often” with First Nations – right from conception to the last spike… Together, we can create the conditions for shared success.
Tags: economy, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living
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Saturday, August 25th, 2012
12 August 2012
“We need equitable distribution of health care resources and services so that… everyone has equal access to important health-care services,” Dr. Reid said. Beyond pushing for universal access to essential medical care, she said she will use the CMA presidency to raise awareness about the role of the socio-economic determinants of health, and the need to focus on marginalized groups like aboriginal people, those with mental illness and the isolated elderly.
Tags: economy, featured, Health, ideology, Indigenous, mental Health, poverty, rights, standard of living
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Friday, August 24th, 2012
9 August 2012
The Indians did not give up being Indian, as bureaucrats expected they would, for the simple reason that they did not want to. Over and again the principal outcome of top-down, Ottawa-knows-best paternalism was another generation of consternated policy wonks and impoverished reserves whose inhabitants nonetheless resisted outside pressures to cease and desist all things Indian… to introduce voluntary fee simple property ownership to Indian reserves… is one step’s remove from conducting the discussion entirely over the heads of the people affected…
Tags: economy, housing, ideology, Indigenous, participation, rights, standard of living
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Friday, August 24th, 2012
10 August 2012
First Nations are in a period of nation-building or rebuilding, taking back control of our lives after years of colonial rule and being governed as wards of the state by Canada under the Indian Act. Our nations are considering how they govern themselves (their core institutions of government) and what they govern (their jurisdictions). Central to this discussion is determining an appropriate system of land tenure that reflects a particular nation’s culture and traditions while also supporting the development of an economy.
Tags: economy, featured, housing, ideology, Indigenous, rights
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