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Child welfare reform deal presents a fork in the road to reconciliation: Ken Coates in the Globe and Mail – MLI
August 27, 2024 The Indigenous policy revolution in Canada is near the take-off point. The rather unpoetic Agreement on Long-Term Reform on the First Nations Child and Family Services Program has the potential to transform governance as it currently operates. This settlement—worth $47.8-billion over 10 years—is the first major achievement of National Chief Cindy Woodhouse […]
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Securing the future – Canada’s deep geological repository for nuclear waste: Heather Exner-Pirot
August 26, 2024 One of the remaining bones of contention for nuclear energy is the existence of radioactive waste, a problem for which a solution now exists: geological disposal. Introduction In the coming year, Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) – a consortium of nuclear energy and waste producers – will choose the site for […]
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First Nations child and family services deal has potential to radically transform – and improve – Indigenous relationships with rest of Canada: Ken Coates for Inside Policy – MLI
August 20, 2024 The emergence of child and family services as a “top of mind” issue owes a great deal to community-level groups and Indigenous women’s associations. Some of the most profound governance revolutions are buried deep in the pages of complex constitutional documents and legal accords. Only a few people, reviewing the Canada Act […]
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In handling windfall payments, Indigenous groups are focusing on the collective: Karen Restoule and Ken Coates in the Globe and Mail – MLI
August 19, 2024 The economic power of the collective in managing compensation funds is a vital reminder that Indigenous people approach finances in a fundamentally different way than most Canadians. Sudden wealth presents a problem for almost anyone, whether you’re a lottery winner or the recipient of a major court settlement. Regardless of the source […]
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The missing Indigenous wealth transfer: Ken Coates and Karen Restoule in National Newswatch – MLI
August 16, 2024 Canada should not be ignoring those left out of the greatest intergenerational wealth redistribution in history. Intergenerational economic trauma is a real thing, defining and restricting the personal futures of many Indigenous peoples and low-income Canadians. Because this country truly believes that it creates a rough equality of opportunity, we have far […]
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First Nations Wealth Production and Management
August 15, 2024 Indigenous groups nationwide are eager to produce own-source revenues and to reduce their reliance on fiscal transfers from the Government of Canada. Indigenous economic development corporations are the primary vehicle available to First Nations, Metis and Inuit in their efforts to achieve this goal. This webinar examines the role and impact of […]
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Inside Policy: Activism or antisemitism? – MLI
July 10, 2024 It’s a scene that evokes the nightmares of past persecution – a vile strain of antisemitism that attacks Jewish Canadians while shaking the core of our tolerant liberal-democratic Canadian society. In Surrey, BC, masked activists draped in keffiyehs angrily wield placards libelling Israel as a “genocidal state” equivalent to the Nazis. Are […]
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Co-creating cities through Indigenous knowledge and nature-based solutions – IRPP
July 10, 2024 Biodiversity commitments are usually implemented nationally, but it is the cities where many infrastructure and development decisions take place. In a time of rapid urbanization, cities and nature are often seen as incompatible: either biodiversity suffers as cities grow or cities are contained to protect nature. There is no question that human […]
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Seeing energy policy only through the lens of climate change? That time is over: Heather Exner-Pirot and Charles Deland – MLI
July 3, 2024 If there was ever a time where Canadian energy policy could be determined looking only through a lens of climate change, that time is over. This country needs to have a serious conversation. One that recognizes the challenges posed by a warming world – not least an increase in wildfires, drought and heat […]
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Canada Day a perfect time to celebrate Indigenous resilience: Ken Coates and Karen Restoule for Inside Policy – MLI
As we look for reasons to celebrate Canada this year, let’s start in the most unlikely or underappreciated places: with the amazing resilience of First Nations, Inuit, and Metis peoples. At a time of intense disquiet in the country, with Canada Day reduced to little more than a national day off work with muted and […]
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