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04/14/2021 10:00 AM EDT
Welcome to Corridors. Over the next few issues, we’ll introduce you to contributors as obsessed as we are with policy and Canadian politics. Our goal is to add context and perspective to a moment without precedent on Parliament Hill including Budget 2021.
A woman holds a Justice for Joyce placard during a demonstration in central Montreal on October 3 2020, to demand action for the death of Joyce Echaquan, a Canadian indigenous woman subjected to live-streamed racist slurs by hospital staff before her death.
Eric THOMAS / AFP
An annual event to honour and remember Indigenous women and girls who have been murdered and gone missing across the country took place in Canada.
Over 100 people participated in the march through downtown Vancouver.
Banging drums and singing, the demonstrators walked through the city’s downtown east side on the 30th anniversary of the first such march in Vancouver.
Rebecca Kudloo, President of Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, speaks on a panel in relation to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls on January 16, 2020 in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)
Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, the organization that represents Inuit women in the country, and Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the national Inuit organization in Canada, say they’re “encouraged” work is finally underway with the federal government on the co-development of a national action plan to implement recommendatons from a landmark Canadian report on violence against Indigenous women.
“Inuit representatives are working to ensure that Inuit women and girls receive the same standard of safety, health, education, and justice enjoyed by all Canadians, and the physical, emotional, economic, social and cultural security that many Canadians take for granted,” the two organizations said in a joint news release on December 15.
Winnipeg Free Press By: Shannon Sampert
IT shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that many of the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission still remain on the shelf five years after being released. This is after all a country slow to recognize its deeply embedded racism and the long-term impact of colonialism on Indigenous people.
Opinion
IT shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that many of the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission still remain on the shelf five years after being released. This is after all a country slow to recognize its deeply embedded racism and the long-term impact of colonialism on Indigenous people.
TORONTO Thanks to a $250,000 donation, Nunavut’s only humane society is now about halfway to its $1 million fundraising goal to replace its old facility. “Humans can be so generous and it really caught us by surprise,” Iqaluit Humane Society president Janelle Kennedy told CTVNews on Sunday. The current building, housed on property owned by the city, is now condemned because of a mould problem and will be torn down in the spring or summer of 2021. The hefty donation to the society s Million Dollar Mission building fund was thanks to Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation which has offered a helping hand to the humane society from time to time in the past.