We can’t ignore the roots of some rural crime
Trotting out historical excuses for criminal actions will only leave rural residents to continue to be terrorized by gangsters (FREE)
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Tag: Aboriginal politics
The strangling nature of Canada’s ‘duty to consult’ the Indigenous
A recent Supreme Court decision seems to have loosened the constraints, but will new legislation push such matters to the UN? (FREE)
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Truth and Reconciliation proposals on child welfare destined to fail
Government is called upon for yet more legislation and more money when the real problem is poor parenting (FREE)
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Trans Mountain mired in hopeless consultations and useless studies
The court decision against the pipeline veered away from objective legal analysis into opinions designed to justify preconceived biases
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A bad rap: one singer’s misplaced perspective on treaty rights
The federal government now spends approximately $100,000 per year on each First Nations family (FREE)
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Jean Chretien tried to end Canada’s apartheid system
As a cabinet minister under Pierre Trudeau, his bold plan would have improved the lives of Indigenous Canadians. It was doomed
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Canada’s persistent apartheid system
Canadians passionately denounced South Africa while not noticing that we had an apartheid system of our own. It’s still here (FREE)
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How to get First Nations onside with resource-related projects
The support of B.C. Indigenous communities for LNG projects provides a working model for agreements (FREE)
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Stop playing the racist card and deal with the real problems
To ignore a safety issue involving alcohol use among Indigenous communities for fear of being labelled a racist is just plain wrong (FREE)
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Focus on the merit of ideas, not identity politics
The Yellowhead Institute, a new think-tank focusing on Indigenous issues, needs to broaden its perspective (FREE)
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Trans Mountain pipeline hurdles never end
The long, convoluted path to rejection demonstrates an approval process that is fundamentally flawed on so many levels (FREE)
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Integrate Canada’s forgotten Indigenous into the urban mainstream
We need to follow the example set by New Zealand, which gave the Māori the economic, educational and social help they needed, while allowing them to preserve their culture (FREE)
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