“Leyland Cecco is a freelance journalist based in Toronto, Canada. His work has primarily been in the Middle East, South Asia and Canada, with a focus on water security.” - The Guardian website September 6 2021 Dear Mr. Cecco, Your article in today’s edition of The...
Was there a cultural genocide in Canada as claimed in the Truth and Reconciliation Report? Mass graves at residential schools? An interview with Professor Rodney Clifton, co-editor of “From Truth Comes Reconciliation: Assessing the Truth and Reconciliation...
Over the last six weeks or so, popular newspapers in Canada and around the world have been filled with reports and commentaries on the discovery of 215 graves on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School and an increasing number of graves at other...
How can we achieve Indigenous economic reconciliation when the legal system perpetuates endless legal grievances and challenges? Case in point is a recent court ruling in British Columbia that could have serious negative effects on developments in provinces that...
The United Nations (UN) was born out of an idea for creating a society of nations, a global community, a brotherhood of nations built on a set of higher ideals. These ideals would give rise to a global village with accountability to each other, including social...
The Alberta premier’s plan to treat the coronavirus as endemic was the way out of the COVID crisis. That he is once again adopting restrictions for the province, for the fourth time, does not negate the endemic approach. But his declaration, paraphrasing President...
Reanna Aguino, 38, is the quintessential Indigenous business leader, having started as a secretary/treasurer for Tsay Professional Services Inc. and is now the president of the company. Aguino is a tribal member of Ohkay Owingeh, a Pueblo Indigenous community in New...
In 2013, the small outport community of Little Bay Islands, Newfoundland, had to make a very emotional decision. The local economy had completely dried up. The crab processing plant had closed, and the community was far away from government public services. Looking at...
Marjorie LeBreton is a former leader of the Conservatives in the Senate. She has a family tragedy in her past: her daughter and grandson were killed by a drunk driver. Ms. LeBreton is unhappy that her former senate colleagues have voted to gut Bill C-46 which gives...
Many Americans know Ben Chavis, 60, from his pioneering work in the American Indian charter school movement, where he administered the acclaimed American Indian Public Charter School in Oakland, California. He took the school over in July 2000, and it went from the...
I have recently been paying attention to public event openings announcing that we are now on treaty land. Perhaps the most unusual is the one advising people that they are now on the home land of the Metis Nation. Consider this: Does an acknowledgement that one is on...
The Frontier Centre for Public Policy has just released The Path Untaken -- “Indian Cities” in Canada and the Māori Model by Joseph Quesnel, a research fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. This paper examines different policies to help economically...
Two recent cases have shone a spotlight on the very limited right that Canadians now have to defend themselves and their property. They are the Gerald Stanley case from Saskatchewan, and the recent Khil case in Ontario. In both cases property owners shot men who had...
By now, we are used to attending public events that begin with an acknowledgement that we are on treaty land. This ritual grew out of a claim by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that such a statement was necessary to bring Indigenous and non-Indigenous...
More than half of Winnipeg’s Indigenous homeless population are former wards of Child and Family Services. A former CFS ward explained on CBC that the fifty percent figure was too low, not taking into account the significant number of former wards who “couch surf”....