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 ...
This is the structure of settler colonialism. One of the basic assumptions of your editorial—and virtually all other mainstream media coverage of Elsipogtog—is that colonialism happened sometime in the past, and since then Canada has done a lot to “right our historical wrongs.” When do you...
The report was discussed by the Saami politicians in the Sámediggi plenary meeting in May 2007 and resulted in a second step, when local Saami organisations could apply for grants to perform a total of 14 pilot documentation projects in 2007–2009 in order to be able to reflect upon the ...
creation of Saskatchewan as a separate province. A member of the party in federal power at the time, the Liberal Scott was the first of several able politicians who kept the party in power in Saskatchewan except in 1929–34 and 1944–64 and after 1971. The 1944–64 period was unique in...
24. “Our politicians and decision-makers must hold the climate polluters accountable for destroying the natural and ecological dynamics of our planet.”– Yurshell Rodríguez 25. “If we don’t have water we don’t have a life or a future.”– Maxima Acuna ...
underfunded institutions actually caused the high death rates among students. What is also indisputable, based on the government’s own records, is that generations of federal government officials and politicians knew that the subpar conditions in the schools were killing children and choosing to do ...
“In January we are going to present [the labour reform] to civil society and to Ecuadorean public opinion in order to have the broadest possible debate between employer groups, unions, academics, politicians and collect all the possible concerns to modify the project and then send it, I woul...
The Missing and Murdered Indigenous women epidemic is a crisis currently affecting indigenous women in communities across the United States and Canada. This crisis has been named genocide status in Canada and has affected thousands of women and girls across the nation. The issue of Missing and Murd...
Ambitious generals and politicians have played on this Quito-Guayaquil rivalry since the foundation of the republic in 1830. During the period 1830–45 two leaders from the wars of independence—Juan José Flores and Vicente Rocafuerte—struggled for power; Flores found much of his support in Quit...
However, the concept of indigenous land title is likely to be a divisive one among politicians and administrators; many will oppose it or maintain that it is not really necessary. Many indigenous rights activists, on the other hand, see it as a fundamental issue – even one of moral justice...