Reading Time: 4 minutes From prison reform to better community services that address poverty and prevent crime, here’s what Canada can do
Tag: Aboriginal Canadians
Treaty land admission is just the thin edge of the wedge
Reading Time: 3 minutes The treaty land acknowledgment is part of a very sophisticated strategy to soften Canadians up for a new and radical campaign to rewrite treaties
Justice reform can’t just be knee-jerk
Reading Time: 3 minutes Eliminating peremptory challenges during jury selection and restricting preliminary inquiries won’t necessarily improve the system
Are we really all on treaty land?
Reading Time: 5 minutes The phrase ‘you are now on treaty land’ is part of a slick marketing campaign with clear financial goals
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
Balancing Indigenous claims of institutional discrimination
Reading Time: 3 minutes If we go beyond the increasingly shrill voices, we can find stories of compassion and equality
Drawing on rich traditions to nourish our children
Reading Time: 4 minutes Poor nutrition in Indigenous children, starting with colonization, through residential schools, continues today. It must stop
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
Trans Mountain a pipeline to prosperity and stability
Reading Time: 3 minutes First Nations support pipelines, including Trans Mountain. Abandoning the project will be a severe blow to those communities
Indigenous children continue to pay a steep price
Reading Time: 5 minutes No amount of funding plans or reorganization can solve this problem as long as alcohol and drug abuse persists in First Nations communities