Reading Time: 3 minutes Teaching such languages is better done by parents and ethnic associations. Schools must focus on core subjects
Tag: Aboriginal education
Giving Indigenous youth the best chance to succeed
Reading Time: 3 minutes Five reasons why bilingual Indigenous education improves scholastic results and ensures better futures
Lining up for another government payout
Reading Time: 4 minutes Should every Indigenous person who was required to attend day school be compensated?
How we ignore the complexity and moral ambiguity related to residential schools
Reading Time: 7 minutes We won’t find reconciliation until we’re willing to examine the truth in all its nuances and subtleties
Call for papal apology an affront to religious liberty
Reading Time: 3 minutes MPs telling bishops what to do is a monstrous misunderstanding of the relationship between political power and civil society
The complexity, nuance and truth at the heart of residential schools
Reading Time: 6 minutes It’s instructive that no credible alternative to the residential schools has ever been put forward
Beyak should not be silenced about Indigenous issues
Reading Time: 4 minutes The senator has enabled all of us to take the first step in honestly discussing race and culture
A fundamental flaw at the centre of the Truth and Reconciliation report
Reading Time: 3 minutes The commission seems to have begun its work with a conclusion in mind, then spent six years and more than $60 million amassing evidence to support it
Facing up to tragedy and injustice is the first step to healing
Reading Time: 3 minutes What if your children were taken to a place far away where they would cry themselves to sleep every night?
In defence of Sen. Lynn Beyak’s stance on Indigenous rights
Reading Time: 4 minutes Racial purity laws – status cards – have no place in a modern country. They should have been gone long ago