UN Committee Asks Canada to Respond to Racism Claim in the Mi’kmaq Fishery Dispute
The United Nations anti-racism committee wants Canada to answer to allegations of racist actions committed against Mi’kmaq lobster fishers in Nova Scotia.
In a letter issued on April 30, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination makes reference to incidents last fall where members of the Sipekne’katik First Nation encountered violence. The incidents were related to a dispute with non-indigenous fishers aggrieved that the Mi’kmaq band was fishing outside of the federally regulated season. The attacks included destruction of a lobster storage facility being used by the band and a van owned by a band member.
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The answer, of course, is to have a society based on human values other than buying or selling. To arrive at this society, we need a good deal of planning and a good deal of struggle, which, if the best comes to the best, may be on the plane of ideas, and otherwise who knows?
–Cybernetics, Norbert Wiener, 1948
These profoundly radical words from Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) echo Malcolm X’s call to address structural racism in society “by any means necessary”. Yet Wiener is hardly known as a revolutionary. In fact, by the beginning of the 21st century his name was hardly known at all. Given that he is arguably the foremost 20th century thinker and commentator on the relationship between technology and society, this is unfortunate.
Hikes not supposed to be cash grabs
Tuition increases are capped at seven per cent, but the Alberta Tuition Framework allows schools to apply to the Minister of Advanced Education for exceptional hikes if the increased tuition would result in improvements in program quality.
Dew said the increases are designed to improve programs, possibly by hiring more faculty members, increasing bursaries and expanding experiential learning.
U of A provost Steven Dew speaks about proposed tuition increases on Zoom.(CBC)
He said the provincial government s policies and the MacKinnon Panel tasked with examining its finances support shifting post-secondary education costs from taxpayers to students.
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