What we mean when we say Indigenous land is 'unceded'
WEBJan 24, 2020 · Canada’s Constitution is clear that Indigenous land rights exist, said Benjamin Ralston, a lecturer and researcher at the Indigenous Law Centre at the University of Saskatchewan. But in practice, fights over exactly what those rights are can take decades to resolve in court or in treaty negotiations, revealing “cognitive dissonance” in ...
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It's all in the family for Canada's most famous sibling activists
WEBNov 17, 2020 · Growing up in Montreal, their mother, Bonnie Sherr Klein, became a pioneering member of the National Film Board’s Studio D, the first publicly funded feminist film production unit in the world. “My parents always went to demonstrations. Our family car trips were listening to music from the civil rights movement.
Public services, not private donations, are the solution to disabled ...
WEBFeb 22, 2022 · In British Columbia, Madeline is literally fundraising to stay alive. Suffering from post-viral syndrome, her financial vulnerability is urgent and increases by the day.She writes: “In B.C., [disabled] people receive about $1,000 per month less than what a healthy person earning minimum wage makes in a 40-hour week.”After four decades navigating so-called “social assistance,” Madeline ...
Poilievre breathes new life into Trudeau’s chances
WEBDec 15, 2023 · This new Abacus Data poll shows Liberal support snapping back and Poilievre’s negatives on the rise. “It appears that the Conservatives and Pierre Poilievre have made themselves less acceptable to these past Liberal supporters over the past few weeks and may have even alienated a small portion of their own past supporters, pushing most back into the Liberal fold,” Abacus Data CEO David ...
DFO shuts most B.C. fisheries in desperate effort to save salmon
WEBJun 29, 2021 · Commercial salmon fishing will be closed in most of coastal B.C. this year and into the foreseeable future to save the West Coast's critically low fish stocks, the federal government announced Tuesday.. Nearly 60 per cent of the province's commercial salmon fisheries, once the economic and cultural backbone of the B.C. coast, will be forced to shutter in 2021, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO ...
Ontario's garbage problem is overwhelming
WEBFeb 14, 2022 · Ontario has a garbage problem and an ever-shrinking window of time to solve it. According to a recent audit, the province will exhaust its existing landfill space within 11 to 14 years unless it changes course. But that isn’t happening. “We’ve been having this conversation for a very long period of time,” said Peter Hargreave, president ...
INVESTIGATION: Developers with ties to Ford government stand …
WEBApr 3, 2021 · The premier’s office says the 413 is needed to serve a growing population and relieve pressure on highways that will soon be over capacity. National Observer and Torstar took an inside look at the money, power and influence …
Electoral reform can save Canada from Pierre Poilievre's politics
WEBSep 29, 2022 · If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. When it comes to electoral reform, that ought to be the attitude of both Justin Trudeau’s Liberals and Jagmeet Singh’s NDP. After failing to reach an agreement on the best way to replace Canada’s first-past-the-post system, both sides have since moved on to other priorities. But with Pierre Poilievre’s rise and the ongoing spread of ...
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