Reading Time: 3 minutes Bands under the oversight of the act should take steps toward financial self-sufficiency now, in preparation for eventual self-government
Tag: Aboriginal Politics
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
Indigenous department changes herald an important new beginning
Reading Time: 3 minutes The federal government must ensure that dividing the department into two helps bands negotiate self-government and create own-source revenue streams
Andrew Scheer must put First Nations issues back on the agenda
Reading Time: 3 minutes The new Conservative leader can do much to advance indigenous issues and the national agenda – and get his party elected in 2019
The Indian Act should have been abolished years ago
Reading Time: 4 minutes Aboriginal Canadians must accept that remaining in grievance mode and relying on the government is preventing them from moving forward
Cornwallis and Ryerson: heroes or villains?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Recognizing that all of us are an amalgam of good deeds and bad attitudes will save us from a ceaseless round of endless moaning about the sins of our ancestors
Missing women, evil men: inquiry must examine both
Reading Time: 4 minutes Far too many aboriginal men insist on locking themselves and their families in a deadly prison of dependence, alcohol, abuse and violence
Canadians’ US$38-million-a-day gift to Americans
Reading Time: 4 minutes Failure to build pipelines leaves us with no choice but to sell our oil to the U.S. at cheap prices, leaving it to sell its own oil at the international price
B.C. Greens should support Site C dam, for all British Columbians
Reading Time: 3 minutes Aboriginal rights are extremely important but, like any Charter right, they’re not absolute. They must be balanced against other competing critical interests
Canada can work for everyone, if we all work together
Reading Time: 3 minutes Although a growing number of aboriginal people are productive members of the workforce, far too many rely on the government for support. That must change