Reading Time: 4 minutes Segregation and special rights have always been the problem. Integration has always been the answer
Tag: Aboriginal Politics
Killing Trans Mountain project would devastate Indigenous communities
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ottawa must bring in legislation to ensure the project gets built now more than ever
Moving aboriginal services closer to people a good idea
Reading Time: 3 minutes But the temptation to allow old-school First Nation politics into the system must be avoided
Indigenous education can and must be fixed
Reading Time: 4 minutes If the current arrangements continue, the result will be another lost generation or two
The questions left unasked about Indigenous deaths
Reading Time: 5 minutes Including: how was it possible for these deaths to occur without anyone noticing?
Finding a new path forward driven by Indigenous people
Reading Time: 6 minutes If the graves of residential school children symbolize anything, it is the abject failure of decades of government policy
We must discover the truth, no matter how horrible
Reading Time: 3 minutes We must find out the truth about residential schools if we are to heal from the wounds caused by our cruelty
First Nations need safe drinking water now
Reading Time: 3 minutes After years of delays, mixed signals, lack of consultation and broken promises, delivery of safe drinking water systems is long overdue
The horrible cost of constantly punting Indigenous claims to court
Reading Time: 4 minutes Governments have more resources and delays can drag on for years. Indigenous peoples pay heavily for the delays in resolving their claims
Below-normal temperatures lead to soaring spot LNG prices
Reading Time: 4 minutes But opposition to resource development from environmental organizations and First Nations means Canada being left out in the cold