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Indigenous parliament could give stronger voice to Indigenous peoples

Hill Times, August 24, 2020 COVID-19 has shone a spotlight on the cracks in Canada’s social nets, and the fact that they don’t serve Canadians with equity. We now have opportunity to review the structures and policies of Canada and fix some things that aren’t working in the ways we expected. Rip the box open, …

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Ottawa, we have a problem: reconciliation requires structural changes on the Hill

Hill Times August 10, 2020 In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released the 94 Calls to Action, a roadmap for Canada to find closure on the era of Indian residential schools and to ensure we don’t repeat history. What has changed since 2015 to ensure we don’t repeat history? Dr. Eva Jewell and Ian …

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Work of reconciliation and anti-racism held back by performative action

Hill Times July 27, 2020 It’s been five years into reconciliation and there’s been a lot of talk and not enough action. It’s time to start naming performative action as the barrier to real change. Performative action is doing just enough to avoid recrimination but not enough to affect real change. For example, the federal …

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Speak out against racism, demand wholesale change in Canada’s police forces

Hill Times June 15, 2020 In the second quarter of 2020, racism and police brutality was brought to the forefront of the world’s consciousness. Black Americans, Native Americans, and allies closed down American cities as a measure of the stark and desperate urgency to change whole systems. Racism and police brutality have no place in …

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Women leaders are running this country, and we should keep it that way

Hill Times May 18, 2020 One really couldn’t say I’m a raging feminist, but I am Tlingit. In my culture women lead. That’s the way it has always been. Women are essential in leadership as good decisions can’t be made without women. The reverse is also true in a fully functioning society, good decisions can’t …

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