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Tag: Aboriginal Canadians
Moving forward together to be a light for a broken world
Reading Time: 3 minutes We gain strength when we decide that we won’t allow the crimes of others to hold us back. We gain true freedom when we forgive our oppressors
Second line of O Canada should read “Our home on native land”
Reading Time: 4 minutes One small change to the words of O Canada will remind us of our historic debt and help facilitate broader knowledge of Indigenous issues
The real culprit in Tina Fontaine’s death
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s dysfunctional reserve system has produced far too many marginalized and vulnerable girls and women
The double standards of the Boushie/Stanley case
Reading Time: 4 minutes The PM seems committed to adding to the differences between Indigenous people and the mainstream, instead of trying to dismantle a divisive system
Time to get serious about water quality in First Nation communities
Reading Time: 3 minutes Solving this seemingly intractable problem should be quite simple, but simply increasing funding will only make the problems worse
Is Ottawa really committed to new resource development?
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s doubtful. Its plan to “improve” the NEB actually makes it more difficult and costly for business to navigate
Systemic racism or a protected, impartial process?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Gerald Stanley-Colten Boushie case has touched off a firestorm that reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of how our legal system works
Indigenous middle class key to closing tragic cultural chasm
Reading Time: 3 minutes The large and growing Indigenous middle class has shown us the way, by successfully integrating without any loss of their Indigenous culture and identity
Crossing the hard line between the judiciary and politics
Reading Time: 2 minutes Politicians are beginning to signal they feel they have the right to tweet their disagreement with any court decision they donʼt like