The Dance Centre will showcase online performances in the lead up to International Dance Day on April 29.
Many congratulations on your appointment in these fragile, unnerving pandemic times. As the NDP election platform and your mandate letter from the premier make clear, government policy on food banks is now your responsibility.
That means you have the opportunity and responsibility to reverse the province’s shocking embrace of U.S.-style food banks, which should be an embarrassment for Canada’s party of human rights and economic and social justice.
Especially as the dependence on food banks can only undermine B.C.’s legislated poverty reduction strategy.
The Barngarla Determination Aboriginal Corporation is mounting a legal challenge against the South Australian Government s approval of a drilling exploration project on sacred land in the state’s mid-north.
Earlier this month, the Premier Steven Marshall, who is also the Aboriginal Affairs Minister, gave the approval for drilling exploration by company, Kelaray, a subsidiary of Argonaut Resources, to search for ore bodies on the surface of Lake Torrens.
Lake Torrens is a sacred site to four separate Aboriginal nations - the Kokatha, Barngarla, Adnyamathhna and Kuyani people.
Barngarla Determination Aboriginal Corporation Chairperson Jason Bilney told NITV News that his people are “disappointed” with the government’s approval and that they re now preparing a legal challenge.
Legal action against the municipality of Oka
January 15, 2021
KANESATAKE MOHAWK TERRITORY- Kanesatake is officially taking Oka and the Quebec government to court.
The two communities faced a major dispute over the Pines before the end of December, but the conflict certainly didn’t go away with the new year. The Mohawk Council of Kanesatake (MCK) announced on Monday that it has filed for legal actions, demanding to “quash and declare null Oka’s bylaw” as their press release reads.
The MCK is also asking that the judicial review prevent the municipality of Oka from “taking any further actions to limit or obstruct the transfer of the Pines to Kanien’keha:ka control,” and recognize that the municipality has failed to consult the community before adopting the bylaw.
A Year Later, Complaint about RCMP Actions During Wet’suwet’en Conflict in Limbo
Complainants called for an independent review, but instead police investigated themselves and pressured them to drop their case.
Amanda Follett Hosgood lives and writes amidst the stunning mountains and rivers of Wet’suwet’en territory. Find her on Twitter @amandajfollett. SHARES RCMP officers with a police dog stand guard as workers disassemble a gate near the Unist’ot’en Healing Centre earlier this month.
Photo by Amanda Follett Hosgood.
A year after filing complaints with the RCMP’s civilian oversight body over RCMP actions during the Wet’suwet’en protests, Cody Merriman (Wedlidi) and Delee Nikal are frustrated by delays and what they call a broken system.
It’s one thing to read critiques of the lack of support for families with children who have complex needs, and another to witness the struggles they face.
For the parents of children with complex needs, the pandemic didn’t highlight how poorly their kids are supported by the B.C. government. They already knew.
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A recent report from the Office of the Representative for Children and Youth called out the Children and Family Development Ministry for “the ongoing and deeply unsettling story of a piecemeal system that has never provided adequate and equitable support” for kids with complex needs due to cognitive, developmental or physical disabilities.