Hill Times February 24 2020 We are adding to the crisis in the relationship with Indigenous peoples. It’s a crisis. Many people are scrambling to come up with policy options. Tensions are high. We all want it resolved. And that, Ottawa, is pretty much all that we can agree on. Those are the facts. Everything […]
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Hill Times February 10 2020 There is a pervasive stereotype in the health-care system that Indigenous peoples are all drunks. Every single Indigenous person that I know has personal or family experiences of falling victim to this stereotype. Dr. Janet Smylie reflected in her report in 2015, “First Peoples, Second Class Treatment,” that many Indigenous
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Hill Times January 27 2020 Last week the Office of the Correctional Investigator issued a scathing report on the state of Indigenous people in federal prisons. It’s bad. The overall proportion of Indigenous people is at 30 per cent, and for Indigenous women the figure is even higher. About 10 years ago, I toured the
Hill Times, January 13 2020 I teach about cultural competence and the lack of understanding between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians. One of the consistent responses from non-Indigenous participants is shock about the amount of pain that some Indigenous families go through. It’s true, some Indigenous families endure more pain in a year than some non-Indigenous
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Hill Times December 16, 2019 I was going to write about the new federal cabinet. Then I heard Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller spout the same doublespeak as his predecessor on why the federal government believes it knows better on how to treat Indigenous kids than the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. Then I heard about
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Hill Times, December 2 2019 A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to see Thunder Bay, Ont., again, and it was winter already. I travelled there to attend the memorial for two First Nations youth who died in Thunder Bay— Jethro Anderson and Paul Panacheese. Tanya Talaga documented the loss of seven First Nations
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The Province of BC passed UNDRIP on November 26, 2019 – a huge event in history on par with the Royal Proclamation.
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The Province of BC passed UNDRIP on November 26, 2019 – a huge event in history on par with the Royal Proclamation.
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