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Aboriginal law

No justice, no peace.

I hope everyone had a holiday and managed to enjoy it…I used to think that people complaining about putting on weight over the holidays was an exaggeration, but that was back when my metabolism allowed me to gorge myself on pretty much anything with no repercussions!  For some reason however, Read more…

By âpihtawikosisân, 13 yearsJanuary 10, 2012 ago
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Don’t let them call you uneducated.

The other day my partner and I were on our way to see the Nutcracker ballet for the first time with our four daughters (two are mine, two are his).  We walked by a discarded Christmas tree and a forgotten ornament caught my youngest daughter’s eye.  She excitedly extricated it Read more…

By âpihtawikosisân, 13 yearsJanuary 1, 2012 ago
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Building relationships requires education.

When it comes to the many challenges that aboriginal peoples face here in Canada, I find I have to strike a balance between identifying those problems and trying to come up with solutions for them.  Spending too much time on either of those things and I get mixed up, ungrounded.  Read more…

By âpihtawikosisân, 13 yearsDecember 21, 2011 ago
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We’re more than just poverty.

Today was a bit of a low day for me, emotionally.  Try as I might, I can’t seem to escape the negativity being spewed from so many mouths, streaming from the tips of so many furiously typing fingers.  No, I’m not going to link to the rants and articles I’m Read more…

By âpihtawikosisân, 13 years ago
Alienation

What is Chief Spence hiding? Not your logical fallacy.

This is the question of the day (week/month), isn’t it?  Cue the accusations of fraud, of theft, of corruption.  All made without a shred of evidence to support them.  Made as though such statements are self-evident.  Self-evidentiary.  Obviously true.  The question itself frames the discussion.  The question even answers itself. Read more…

By âpihtawikosisân, 13 years ago

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