Posts Tagged ‘rights’
Beyond yes or no: Why Indigenous consent to resource projects is so complex
Tuesday, August 18th, 2026
Cultural recognition also shows up in the promotion of Indigenous identity, support — financial and otherwise — for certain practices and partial recognition of sacred sites. Still, it remains selective and conditional, contingent on its compatibility with mining operations.
Economic recognition, meanwhile, is a central dimension in its own right, going beyond mere monetary compensation to reshape communities’ social status.
Tags: economy, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights, standard of living
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How come it takes a right-wing convoy for courts to uphold law and order?
Friday, August 14th, 2026
“Protesters intimidate, harass and exclude others, while claiming their Charter right to ‘free expression and peaceful assembly’ prevents police from laying charges. To date, various police forces have tacitly agreed, limiting charges to actual physical violence or threats. Lax enforcement has emboldened protesters, leading to groups marching in residential neighbourhoods, chanting hateful rhetoric.”
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, jurisdiction, rights
Posted in Governance Policy Context | 5 Comments »
Who were the Luddites? Their legacy ripples through politics, cultural commentary and literature
Thursday, August 6th, 2026
Along with the political radicals and the labour campaigners over the course of the 19th century, they took part in a prolonged struggle waged for rights, dignity and justice. That struggle partially succeeded, forcing the ruling classes to compromise rather than continuing to rely on brute force.
Tags: economy, ideology, rights, standard of living
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When Canada negotiates with Donald Trump’s America, it’s not just trade that’s at stake. It’s our sovereignty
Wednesday, May 6th, 2026
… CUSMA… does not just regulate trade. It restricts what Parliament can legislate, what regulators can require and what courts can enforce… Canada needs to govern its own digital economy. We need sovereignty over data, accountability for algorithms, and protection of critical digital infrastructure… We have just under sixty days until we move dangerously close to becoming the fifty-first state. We can still reverse course, but only if we act before the review’s July 1 Canada Day deadline.
Tags: economy, globalization, jurisdiction, rights
Posted in Governance Policy Context | 7 Comments »
Coercion isn’t care, and new laws that enforce treatment and confinement are dangerous
Monday, April 27th, 2026
Coercion is articulated as care and involuntary treatment is presented not as a restriction of liberty but as a necessary response to incapacity and risk. This appeal to compassion functions as a unifying political language, enabling cross-partisan support despite differing ideological stances. By portraying these policies as pragmatic, humane and long overdue, policymakers limit opposition. They also reconfigure the boundaries of acceptable state intervention…
Tags: Health, ideology, mental Health, rights
Posted in Health Policy Context | 4 Comments »
What Pierre Poilievre Doesn’t Get About His Economic Hero
Monday, April 27th, 2026
Poilievre presents justice — fairness, poverty reduction, the well-being of those left behind — as something that markets produce incidentally when they are left alone. The claim is that free markets lifted billions out of poverty; therefore the path forward is more free markets, fewer regulations, lower taxes, more oil and gas. But this framing depends on a separation of efficiency and justice that doesn’t hold up under scrutiny.
Tags: economy, ideology, privatization, rights, standard of living
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Doug Ford’s push for secrecy is putting the health of Ontarians at risk
Monday, April 13th, 2026
It’s Ontarians who bear the consequences when governments grant themselves the power to be unaccountable. It’s Ontarians who endure longer ER and surgical wait times. It’s Ontarians who are left wondering where their tax dollars have gone — as leaders secretly spend public funds… Here’s what Ontario should be doing: Legislate bans on FOI carve-outs so politicians cannot simply write themselves out of oversight… Secrecy breaks the basic social contract — not only of health care, but of democracy itself.
Tags: featured, Health, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights
Posted in Governance Debates | 6 Comments »
The Trump era demands we rethink Canada’s constitutional ‘nuclear option’
Tuesday, March 31st, 2026
… everything that is happening in the United States, more or less, could happen here in a perfectly constitutional manner,” … thanks to the notwithstanding clause… The question is not whether Section 33 can be used, however, but when and how… In just the past six years, however, various governments have used it nine times… voters have proved generally disinclined to punish political parties who use and abuse the notwithstanding clause.
Tags: ideology, jurisdiction, rights
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Privacy commissioner challenges Doug Ford’s reasons for changing access-to-information rules
Friday, March 27th, 2026
Information and privacy commissioner Patricia Kosseim has filed a six-point rebuttal to Premier Doug Ford’s “various” reasons for exempting himself, his cabinet ministers and political aides from access-to-information laws… in a response to Ford’s suggestion that only the media and opposition parties use the laws, the commission said that in the 2024 FOI requests, “more than 95 per cent were submitted by “individuals, businesses, researchers, and community organizations.”
Tags: featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights
Posted in Governance Policy Context | 8 Comments »
Carney government replacing Islamophobia and antisemitism envoys with advisory council
Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
The council on “Rights, Equality and Inclusion” will be made up of Canadian academics, experts and community leaders “with a mission to foster social cohesion, rally Canadians around shared identity, combat racism and hate in all their forms, and help guide the efforts of the Government of Canada… “Disagreement is legitimate, harmful or abusive conduct, including disinformation, is not.”
Tags: crime prevention, jurisdiction, multiculturalism, participation, rights
Posted in Equality Debates | 1 Comment »
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