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Sharon McIvor to MPs: Kill Bill C-3, It Won’t End Sex Discrimination of Indian Act

Posted on May 24, 2010May 25, 2010 by Rick Harp

The Native Women’s Association of Canada has released an open letter to MPs from Sharon McIvor opposing Bill C-3 (aka, the “Gender Equity in Indian Registration Act”): According to the Honourable Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Bill C-3 will make about 45,000 people newly eligible for registration as Indians. But Bill […]

A half-century of the Aboriginal vote

Posted on March 31, 2010April 1, 2010 by Waubgeshig Rice

Aboriginal Canadians have been allowed to vote in federal elections for 50 years now. But who’s voting? It was the fall of 1993 and the Canadian federal election campaign was heating up. I was in Grade 10, and one of my history assignments was to poll people in my community about the parties they were […]