Posts Tagged ‘Indigenous’
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Supreme Court’s Rosalie Abella prepares to retire as her legacy of defining equality seems built to last
Sunday, March 7th, 2021
Her life’s work has been about defying indifference — to inequality, to discrimination, and to injustice… Her 17-year tenure at the top court has touched on all areas of law. She is a constitutional law and human rights expert, and a fierce defender of the rights of women, people with disabilities, and religious minorities, a judge who frequently cites international law and comparative law in her rulings.
Tags: crime prevention, disabilities, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, women
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OCUFA: As Laurentian’s funding crisis continues, Ministry of Colleges and Universities refuses to take action
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
… at a meeting with OCUFA, Ministry representatives said the government intends to wait until after the university has been dramatically restructured through the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act(CCAA) to determine its next steps… “For years we have been warning about the government’s chronic underfunding of Ontario’s universities and the negative impact it would have on students and education quality,” said Rahul Sapra, President of OCUFA.
Tags: budget, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation
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A broader vision of public health
Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
If we learn anything from COVID-19, it should be that we need a more comprehensive version of public health that acts on what we know about the social determinants of well-being… Here’s our three-step plan. 1. Identify the contours of an integrated, coherent vision of public health… 2. Co-ordinate the wider public health vision across political jurisdictions… 3. Work from the ground up to uncouple “health” from “health care.”
Tags: featured, Health, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, pharmaceutical, standard of living
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2020 brought ugly truths about inequity to the forefront — like how Ontario’s Medical Association still upholds structural racism
Saturday, January 9th, 2021
… patients who must engage in such unequal bargaining with their physicians… are disproportionately BIPOC [Black, Indigenous and other People of Colour] including immigrants and refugees, who are massively overrepresented in the lower income classes. The OMA’s billing guide is a classic example of structural racism precisely because its effects are felt most by BIPOC communities.
Tags: Health, ideology, immigration, Indigenous, multiculturalism
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Indigenous rights bill weak, but necessary
Monday, January 4th, 2021
Bill C-15 does not have any tools to help operationalize consent or create new ways for Indigenous title to be implemented. Its slow, incrementalist approach is frustrating. Nevertheless, it has merit. Despite shortcomings, the bill will provide new avenues and contestation sites for Indigenous rights movements to advance. Most importantly, it binds any future government, no matter its political stripe, to the high standard of consent and the inevitability of Indigenous self-determination.
Tags: Indigenous, participation, rights
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Twenty Indigenous stories that shaped 2020 — a year of racism and fear, of fighting and hope
Friday, January 1st, 2021
Indigenous Peoples across the country faced intensifying endangerment of our lands and rights and took a stand against systemic racism amidst a global Black Lives Matter revolution… Through it all, our people have continued to be resilient in the face of calamity and uncertainty… Where do we go now? Do we pull the plug on reconciliation? Or is there hope – and if so, will we see it come to pass in this generation?
Tags: Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living
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Net-zero, Indigenous-led resource development is possible
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020
… 70 First Nations from across six provinces and territories collectively… signed an agreement that will advance an Indigenous-led, net-zero carbon-emissions policy framework, including nature-based solutions for carbon capture… our partnership highlights three important Canadian trends… investors are putting real dollars into energy projects that will charge the low-carbon economy of the future… Indigenous nations are increasingly involved in these major energy projects as partners and owners… [and] it demonstrates a new kind of collaboration that First Nations are pursuing with each other
Tags: economy, globalization, Indigenous, participation, standard of living
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We know police can’t solve the root causes of Toronto gun violence. What’s stopping us from doing what can?
Saturday, December 19th, 2020
Invest early in terms of education, child supports, health, daycare — try holistic approaches to decrease poverty and disparate outcomes for Black, Indigenous and other racialized groups — and you’ll not only improve lives, but you’ll also save money. On health care, on police, on courts, on jails.
Tags: budget, crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, youth
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What Canadians should understand about the federal UNDRIP bill
Tuesday, December 8th, 2020
The first and second articles of the UNDRIP reiterate the basics of equality and non-discrimination: fundamental Canadian values, enshrined in our Constitution, that we should all rally behind. When people oppose implementing the declaration, they are opposing efforts to ensure Indigenous peoples enjoy the same fundamental rights to equality and non-discrimination that many Canadians take for granted. Achieving this equality may require the government to take specific measures to address current inequalities; non-discrimination requires us to celebrate and accommodate the uniqueness of Indigenous peoples, as well.
Tags: ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights
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Liberals introduce bill to implement UN Indigenous rights declaration
Friday, December 4th, 2020
… the bill would require the federal government to ensure that the laws of Canada are consistent with the declaration’s 46 articles… By introducing the UNDRIP bill, the Liberals are fulfilling a promise dating back to 2016 — when Bennett announced Canada would officially renounce its objections to the declaration at the United Nations. The party pledged during the 2019 federal election to implement UNDRIP within the first year of a new mandate, but postponed tabling the bill earlier this year due to the rail blockade crisis.
Tags: Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights
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