By analyzing the various ways in which they work together, the authors provide an original, transferable framework for studying any type of intergovernmental partnership at the local level. Timely and accessible, A Quiet Evolution is a call to politicians, policymakers and citizens alike to encourage...
While historians and politicians may disagree about the motivations of Canadian policy, the impact has been irrefutable. In efforts to create one unified nation, successive governments failed to recognize their destructive actions. In this failure, Canada has come close to shattering the sub-nations ...
In their study, the authors found that many Canadian politicians are unaware that most Indigenous nations have never ceded their territory. This lack of knowledge may lead to questionable organisational practices hindering Indigenous peoples' participation in the energy transition. In some partnerships' ...
Papal visits to Canada and lip-service apologies from politicians in the U.S. and Australia resolve neither past nor current wrongdoing. Nor does slowly returning some remains or artifacts held in museums and universities. These gestures do nothing to restore lands, languages, and cultures. They ...
EDMONTON — As Alberta's Law Society seeks to defend rules that require members to take a course on Indigenous issues, experts say such measures are common elsewhere in Canada and are well-grounded in legal rationale.
From the coast of British Columbia to the cobblestone streets of Quebec, politicians across the country used the day to renew their commitment to reconciliation. At an event in Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged Canada's history of trying to erase Indigenous identity, addi...
United Nations gatherings — from South Africa and Geneva to the Canadian North — regularly devote a considerable amount of time to grappling with indigenous issues, with indigenous politicians sharing podiums with the sophisticated diplomats of one of the world’s most important organizations. ...
Yet the legislation persists as a central element in the management of Aboriginal affairs in the country. While Aboriginal anger with historic and current terms of the Indian Act is deep and powerful, Indigenous politicians and governments remain strongly divided as to the value and purpose of the...
Policymakers could use political communication to open their doors to Indigenous and other marginalized communities, such as immigrants, who could bring in and teach some of such values and virtues that may advance solutions that non-indigenous politicians and their agents might not even know exist....
OTTAWA — Canada's first commissioner of Indigenous languages said Mondayhe hopes to have his office fully operational by the summer — about two years after it was first announced. People take part in a march on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Montreal, Frida...