Your guide to Aboriginal Parliamentarians and Senators Interested in politics? Sure you are! And because you are, you’ll love this ‘Who’s Who’ of Aboriginal politicians in Canada’s Parliament. (I hope to do the same for other levels of government at some point.) I’m sure you’ll enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it… The House […]
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) just released its latest paper, The Income Gap Between Aboriginal Peoples and the Rest of Canada. Authored by Daniel Wilson and David Macdonald, the study looks at data collected in the 1996, 2001 and 2006 Canadian Censuses, to identify trends and raise questions about the persistent income gaps […]
Read about her passing on Indian Country Today. On its Twitter page, ICT also suggests you check out a discussion of her life and legacy on NPR Radio (note: it starts about a third of the way through, so don’t be thrown off at the beginning). And last but not least, you can watch her […]
The Aboriginal Healing Foundation (AHF) has just released The Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement’s Common Experience Payment and Healing: A Qualitative Study Exploring Impacts on Recipients. (PDF of study available here.) The Common Experience Payment (CEP) is a component of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement and is intended to monetarily recognize and compensate the […]
Made refugees from our own territories, we’re hardly ‘immigrants’ to cities A new study from the Environics Institute highlights the fact that many Aboriginal people who live in cities “have no plans to return to their home reserve,” reports the CBC. Leaving aside for the moment just how complicated it would be for most of […]
