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Supreme court ruling clears way for B.C. ski resort on sacred Indigenous land
The Supreme Court ruled the approval of the ski resort did not violate section 2(a) of the Charter, which guarantees the right to freedom of religion. “The Ktunaxa’s claim does not fall within the scope of s. 2(a) because neither the Ktunaxa’s freedom to hold their beliefs nor their freedom to manifest those beliefs is infringed by the Minister’s decision to approve the project,” said the decision, written by Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin and Justice Malcolm Rowe.
Tags: economy, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, rights
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Apology to LGBTQ community first step toward healing
The record of how LGBTQ2 Canadians were treated by their own government, and the human pain and cost that resulted because of that treatment, is egregious… “People were watched, followed, interrogated and purged from their jobs” … Lives were lost to suicide… “All queer Canadians deserve truth and reconciliation for the historical misuses of state power that eroded their human dignity.”
Tags: featured, ideology, mental Health, participation, rights, standard of living
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Mentally-ill female inmates housed in male facility: report
… Mr. Zinger focused on the conditions of confinement in Canada’s federal prisons, which “serve no underlying correctional or rehabilitative purpose.” … women with serious mental-health issues are more likely to be placed in maximum-security units, which are “far from therapeutic,” and noted nearly half the maximum-security population in women’s prisons is Indigenous… While Indigenous people make up less than 5 per cent of the total population, they comprise 26.4 per cent of the total federal inmate population,
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, rights
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New book ‘Invisible No More’ will change what you think you know about police brutality
For white women, the concern is about police nonresponse to violence. For women of colour, police response is the problem – too many cases where officers responding to domestic violence calls sexually assault the person who called for help, strip searches and cavity searches, criminalization around supposed welfare fraud, the way child protective services police motherhood of women of colour, and how prostitution is policed. “Very few people have paid attention to the police interactions… Counting police violence in the overall equation of violence…”
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, participation, rights, women
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Bernie Sanders lauds Canadian health-care system in Toronto speech
“if you want to expand and protect health care or education, there are people out there in every country in the world who think it is more important to give tax breaks to the richest people … what we need to do is take those oligarchs on.” … What went mostly unsaid during Mr. Sanders’s speech is that while Canada’s health-care system can look great compared with that of the United States, it can still fare poorly next to comparable countries.
Tags: Health, ideology, jurisdiction, mental Health, pharmaceutical, poverty, privatization, rights, standard of living, tax
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Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin on sex assault cases: ‘No one has the right to a particular verdict’
… while the system seems focused on the accused, “complainants and victims are also part of the process,” and the integrity of the system demands that they be taken seriously and that their interests be reconciled with the rights of the accused… The justice system can achieve a “fine but crucial balance” between protecting the right of the accused and the dignity of complainants, but “we must not divide ourselves into warring camps shouting at each other…
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, ideology, rights, women
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Universities should not smother uncomfortable debates
Universities, at their best, have always provided space for those who would challenge conventional wisdom. In this way, the academy has played a vital role in our social and cultural evolution… In these polarized times, this age-old struggle has become increasingly combative and dangerously divisive, with some on campus railing against political correctness to justify their hate and others imposing purity tests that chill rather than enable debate.
Tags: featured, ideology, multiculturalism, participation, rights
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Ottawa has made a mess of Indigenous policy in this country
… the entrenchment of their right to comprehensive negotiation about anything they claim affects their lives as natives, has placed the whole country in the absurd position of being held to blackmail by this nebulous community… by a policy of exaggerating their authority, vesting the natives with the right to extort treasure, retard reasonable development and tar the 95 per cent majority of Canadians of other descent as trespassers, interlopers, and usurpers, we have created a monster…
Tags: budget, ideology, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights
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Demise of Sears Canada should be catalyst for change
… to prevent this sort of fiasco… chang[e] our corporate laws so that those controlling corporations can be held personally liable for money owed to their employees… Wealthy capitalists used to be personally responsible for unpaid wages when their businesses went under. But capitalists fought hard in the late 19th and early 20th century to win the right to limit their liability. At first they won only a partial limit, but over the years U.S. and Canadian courts have extended that limit.
Tags: economy, ideology, pensions, rights
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College students and striking faculty face same challenges with precarious work
In this strike, we are not neutral. We support our faculty… We know the reality of precarious work… Delivering quality education is difficult when you’re working from one four-month contract to the next, have few or no benefits, and aren’t given adequate time to prepare for the courses you’re teaching. Yet these are the working conditions of contract instructors at our colleges, who now make up more than 70 per cent of all faculty.
Tags: budget, featured, ideology, jurisdiction, participation, rights, standard of living, youth
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