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Pages tagged "indigenous rights"


Reconciliation and human rights for Indigenous peoples: the pathway ahead

Posted on News & Blogs by Anne Levesque and Cindy Blackstock · January 16, 2018 9:24 AM

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In January 2016, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal released a historic decision finding that the Government of Canada was racially discriminating against over 165,000 First Nations children. Leading up to the decision, the Government of Canada spent more than 8 million dollars in legal fees trying to have the complaint dismissed on technical grounds. After the decision was issued, the Government of Canada tried to evade human rights scrutiny by arguing that reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples would best be achieved through consultations, rather than orders from the Tribunal. The authors argue that this distorted version of reconciliation is in fact incompatible with the calls to action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and domestic and international human rights law.

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The Broadbent Institute’s Fellows Program

Posted on News & Blogs by Brittany Andrew · November 14, 2017 2:29 PM

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Image: New fellow Partrick Turmel on the panel "Securing the Next Generation of Social Programs" at Progress Summit 2016.

The Broadbent Institute is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Broadbent Institute’s Fellows Program — an integral part of the Institute’s mission to develop and expand a progressive, social democratic vision for Canada.

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Internal documents challenge government’s funding claims for Indigenous children

Posted on News & Blogs by Anna Stanley · March 02, 2017 3:16 AM

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It has been over a year since the federal government was found to be racially discriminating against First Nations children on reserve by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (HRT). 

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Government action to curb solitary confinement long overdue

Posted on News & Blogs by Catherine Latimer · November 08, 2016 1:22 PM

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Making a prisoner spend four years isolated in a plexiglass cell under the constant glare of artificial light is a form of custody that shocks Canadian sensibilities. It is difficult to believe that such cruel treatment was imposed on Adam Capay in a Thunder Bay detention centre – but it was.

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Val Napoleon: On Indigenous law and the public imagination

Posted on News & Blogs by Broadbent Institute · October 12, 2016 12:24 PM

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On September 22 and 23, the Broadbent Institute hosted Progress Summit BC to chart a progressive path forward for the province in this critical election year. The first keynote was delivered by Law Foundation Professor of Aboriginal Justice and Governance at the University of Victoria, Val Napoleon. Watch her remarks and presentation below.

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On reconciliation, the government can and must do more

Posted on News & Blogs by Jonathan Sas · August 05, 2016 3:19 PM

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A year has passed since the closing event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Ottawa — a brief moment of self-reflection that punctured through a stubborn, willful and long-standing national blindness. 

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Indigenous children and racial discrimination as fiscal policy

Posted on News & Blogs by Anna Stanley · May 25, 2016 3:27 PM

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The federal government knowingly discriminates against Indigenous children and their families. That discrimination is part of the colonial fabric that holds together Canadian political-economic development.

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The lasting legacy of the 60s and 70s Scoop

Posted on News & Blogs by Tasha Hubbard · June 21, 2015 9:07 AM

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On a hot summer July afternoon, a social worker handed me over to a young Saskatchewan farming couple. I was three months old, and my adoptive mother tells me I wouldn’t stop crying. She eventually realized I was too hot because my foster mother had dressed me in all the clothes that I possessed. 

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In wake of great loss, a reminder to make the world a better place

Posted on News & Blogs by Tasha Hubbard · February 23, 2015 4:10 AM

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The tributes emerged mid-afternoon on February 10th, as the news that four artists had died in a horrific car accident that killed five people north of Regina.

Michelle Sereda’s was the first name to emerge, and the close-knit arts family of Regina began to mourn.  Michelle had been a long-time figure in the performance, theatre and movement arts community. The next name heard was Lacy Morin-Desjarlais, who was a young woman recently returned to her homeland, also working in theatre and dance. The afternoon waned as the sadness of many continued to rise.

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Putting the Supreme Court ruling on Aboriginal title in context

Posted on News & Blogs by Anna Stanley · June 28, 2014 10:16 AM

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Thursday’s stunning Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) ruling, extending the scope of Indigenous rights to include the right to permanently control “land conferred by aboriginal title”, has the potential to transform the politics of resource extraction and development in Canada. 

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