Posts Tagged ‘Indigenous’
Aboriginal income gap calculated for first time
Friday, April 9th, 2010
Thu, April 8, 2010
In ‘The Income Gap Between Aboriginal Peoples and the Rest of Canada’—the first ever report of its kind—Daniel Wilson and David Macdonald find that for every dollar non-Aboriginals earned in 2006, Aboriginal peoples earned only 70 cents.
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Aboriginal women do better by degrees
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
April 8, 2010
Despite grim statistics that show a stubborn earnings gap of 30 per cent between aboriginal people and other Canadians, aboriginal women who go to university are actually enjoying a kind of advantage – and one not shared by aboriginal men… aboriginal women are narrowing the wage gap with aboriginal men… Part of the reason is aboriginal women are attending university in greater numbers.
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Rights not a cure for Indian Act
Monday, April 5th, 2010
April 02, 2010
Education is the real key to enabling future generations to live in and contribute to the modern world. Unfortunately, too much aboriginal “education” is built around the notion of “preserving the culture.”… While more secure individual property rights may be necessary, they are very far from sufficient to solve the terrible problems — including isolation, dependency, substance abuse, mismanagement and joblessness — inflicted upon natives by well-meaning paternalism, self-serving humbug, and the depredations of their own “leaders.”
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Let’s give the First Nations homes of their own
Saturday, March 27th, 2010
March 27, 2010
We are proposing that the federal government pass a First Nations Property Ownership Act so that First Nations across Canada can have clear underlying and individual property ownership, should they so choose. The benefits of a First Nations property ownership would be substantial. ..
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First nations property rights: Going beyond the Indian Act
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Mar. 23, 2010
Quite simply, those first nations wishing to take over the responsibility of ownership should be able to acquire the title to their reserves from the Crown, thus emancipating themselves from the stifling paternalism of the Indian Act…
There should be a voluntary approach to property rights. First nations who want fee simple ownership should be emancipated from the Indian Act and allowed – not forced – to create those rights.
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For economics and decency’s sake, let’s help our Indian students
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Mar. 17, 2010
Unlike the rest of the population, aboriginals are on average quite young, and because their current educational results are so poor, it’s a very promising place to look for a dramatic increase in the supply of young skilled workers. But the key argument for the APSSA isn’t economics – it’s decency and fairness. The aboriginal grassroots are increasingly clamouring for change. Indian policy in this country is an expensive, shameful failure harmful to the intended beneficiaries and infuriating to taxpayers.
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For students both on and off reserves
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Mar. 16, 2010
In its last budget, the federal government reannounced a two-year-old commitment to reform aboriginal student support. Shawn A-in-chut Atleo, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, has called for 65,000 more aboriginal postsecondary graduates, in order to narrow the income gap. They should work together to make sure that pilot projects that explore these options get off the ground.
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Ottawa urged to end Indian band councils’ post-secondary funding
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Mar. 16, 2010
A new think tank wants Indian band councils stripped of their power to give out post-secondary education grants. Instead, it says, Ottawa should create accounts for each Indian child at birth that would be used later for tuition and living expenses… “The current system is rife with nepotism, corruption, favouritism,”… and much of the money doesn’t get spent on students at all.
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It’s always about money [Aboriginal Protest of Olympics]
Thursday, January 14th, 2010
TheGlobeandMail.com – It’s always about money: VANOC and the aboriginal torch relay. Dependency spending doesn’t work, as some native leaders understand
Published on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010. Last updated on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. Gary Mason
From the day organizers of the 2010 Winter Olympics began their planning, the role that Canada’s aboriginal communities would play in the Games was interwoven into virtually every discussion.
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