“Canada is a test case for a grand notion – the notion that dissimilar peoples can share lands, resources, power and dreams while respecting and sustaining their differences. The story of Canada is the story of many such peoples, trying and failing and trying again, to live together in peace and harmony. But there cannot…
Tag: Chief Theresa Spence
Canada, it’s time. We need to fix this in our generation.
Today is December 16, 2012 and Chief Theresa Spence has been on a hunger strike for six days. Contrary to what some media outlets are reporting, she is not doing this only to protest Bill C-45 or even the deplorable treatment her community has received since declaring an emergency last year. She has vowed to…
Attawapiskat: A study in the need to openly address misunderstandings.
Remember when entire families in a remote northern community were living in severely inadequate shelters in the wintertime, and the federal government reacted to this emergency quickly, and with compassion? I don’t either. What I do remember, is Prime Minister Stephen Harper making a claim about $90 million dollars, adding official legitimacy to an already…
Won’t someone think of the Third Party Manager?
INAC (Aboriginal Affairs) is busy patting itself on the back for solving all of Attawapiskat’s problems. To hear them tell it, Jacques Marion was a veritable hero, swooping into Attawapiskat in the nick of time, narrowly averting disaster. INAC is magnanimously withdrawing its Third Party Manager, but shouldn’t hold its breath for any thanks from…