Reading Time: 4 minutes We need more courageous policy action at all levels of government to address the structural drivers of HIV/AIDS
Tag: Aboriginal Canadians
How alcohol is killing Aboriginal Canadians
Reading Time: 6 minutes In his important book Firewater, Harold Johnson talks about the enormous problem of alcohol abuse that plagues so many Indigenous communities
Indigenous tourism is relatively untouched but the potential is vast
Reading Time: 3 minutes First Nations should take an inventory of their cultural, spiritual and ecological assets, then develop ways to present them to tourists
Court decisions hurting Aboriginal communities
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s time to look beyond the courts for political leadership that works to achieve greater certainty for everyone
Sheer cowardice of Scheer’s failure to kick out Ritz, Beyak
Reading Time: 3 minutes Voters know when the Conservative leader is playing the ostrich and waiting for some controversy to blow over
Entrenched dependence one of the worst legacies of the Indian Act
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
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
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