Canada’s adoption of the UN Declaration on Indigenous Rights has never been more urgent. By Sheryl Lightfoot and Joshua Nichols 5 Mar 2021 | TheTyee.ca
Sheryl Lightfoot is the Canada Research Chair of Global Indigenous Rights and Politics at UBC. She is Anishinaabe and a citizen of the Lake Superior Band of Ojibwe.
Joshua Nichols is an assistant professor in the faculty of law at the University of Alberta. He is mixed-rooted Anishinaabe-Métis from Treaty 8 Territory in northeastern B.C. SHARES Police arrest Brenda Michell (Geltiy) on Wet’suwet’en territory in February 2020. ‘Reconciliation is about working toward a just resolution of the fundamental conflict between Canada’s assertion of sovereignty over this land and the fact that Indigenous peoples’ sovereignty came first.’
Forty Years of Failure to Curb Media Monopolies
A 1981 commission set out a plan to protect the public interest. It was ignored, and the Postmedia-Torstar machinations show we’re paying a high price.
Taylor C. Noakes is an independent journalist, public historian and part-time iconoclast originally from Montreal. SHARES Torstar and Postmedia swapped 41 newspapers and immediately closed all but six in November 2017, without any consequences from the Competition Bureau.
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“The shape of the newspaper industry in English Canada was then dramatically changed by an agreement between the two largest of the remaining newspaper corporations. Two papers, in Ottawa and in Winnipeg, were closed on the same day, and where there had been mingled interests, in Vancouver and in Montreal, one chain bought out its new partner.”
Decision on whether to cancel the Vancouver officer liaison program is imminent.
Katie Hyslop is a reporter for The Tyee. Reach her here. SHARES A survey conducted by Argyle PR examined how the Vancouver school community feels about police presence in schools.
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The results of the Vancouver School Board’s community consultations on police in schools are in, and the majority of the more than 1,900 people consulted feel neutral or positive about the school liaison officer program and want to keep it.
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Sue Robins: No Canadian province has made people with Down syndrome or other developmental disabilities a priority for the COVID vaccine. Only the Yukon and the Northwest Territories are currently prioritizing vaccinations for all disabled people.
Other countries have also surpassed Canadian provinces in recognizing the COVID risk for people with developmental disabilities. The U.K. is currently vaccinating adults with learning disabilities, and India began vaccinating people with intellectual disabilities on March 1.
In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control added Down syndrome to its list of high-risk conditions in late December.
But Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization, which makes recommendations on the use of vaccines, does not specifically name Down syndrome or people with developmental disabilities in its guidance. And it has sparse mention for any type of disability. Strikingly, the committee’s guidance on vaccination prioritization, which