The implementation of global standards for Indigenous rights is urgent and essential to the work of reconciliation.
Ry Moran is the inaugural associate university librarian-reconciliation at the University of Victoria and is the former director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
Craig Benjamin is a writer and researcher who works with the Coalition for the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples. SHARES ‘Without a profound change in the relationship between Canada and First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples, there can be no justice, no healing and no end to the daily violations of Indigenous peoples’ human rights.’
Photo of the 2021 Women’s Memorial March by Jennifer Gauthier.
Some 300,000 people get direct support from the ministry.
For Many on Assistance, COVID Benefit Boost Means ‘I Don’t Have to Eat Just Brown Rice and Beans’ read more
A coalition of advocacy groups and the BC Liberal opposition have called on the government to make the $300-a-month COVID-19 supplement permanent. The government reduced the supplement to $150 a month for January, February and March and it was scheduled to end April 1.
In the legislature today BC Liberal critic and Peace River North MLA Dan Davies said more than 11,000 people had signed a petition asking that the $300 payments be made permanent.
Let Little Girls Dream of National Championships | Opinion Mary Forr Szoch
, Director, Center for Life and Human Dignity at Family Research Council On 3/17/21 at 7:00 AM EDT
In second grade, my teacher, Sister Rose, had each student create a poster of our favorite things and career aspirations. My favorite subject math; my favorite color blue-green; my dream to play basketball in the NBA.
In 1995, the WNBA did not exist, so I settled for dreaming of playing professional basketball in the men s league.
In sixth grade, that dream changed. I listened as Ruth Riley drained two free throws to seal the college National Championship. A new dream was born winning a championship while playing basketball for the University of Notre Dame.
A proposed new building for the healing facility was denied because it would be built on farmland.
Andrew MacLeod is The Tyee’s Legislative Bureau Chief in Victoria and the author of
All Together Healthy (Douglas & McIntyre, 2018). Find him on Twitter or reach him at
. SHARES Premier John Horgan and Agriculture Minister Lana Popham both say they support the proposed new First Nations healing centre after the province’s land commission rejected its construction.
Photo via the BC Government.
The B.C. government is working with Carrier Sekani Family Services to find a path forward for a proposed treatment and healing facility for people with substance use issues after a decision by the Agricultural Land Commission set back the project.
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Sr. Helena Burns: Five solutions to feminism gone wrong By Sr. Helena Burns, FSP March 17, 2021
Five solutions to feminism gone wrong
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“Feminism” is not a dirty word. At its most basic level, I define feminism as “the protection and promotion of women.” “Radical feminism” denies any significant differences between men and women beyond a few reproductive body parts, which, of course, is patently false, unscientific and demeaning. I was a radical feminist for a good portion of my life until I discovered John Paul II’s Theology of the Body.