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Canada apologizes to Indigenous group for ‘mass killing’ of sled dogs – Canadian Affairs
November 25, 2024 According to a 2010 report, more than 1,000 dogs belonging to Nunavik peoples were killed ‘without taking into consideration the serious and difficult consequences for dog-owners’ Ottawa officially apologized Saturday to an Indigenous community for the killing of several hundred sled dogs by police more than half a century ago. Minister of […]
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FNQLSDI – Our 2023-2024 Annual Report is now available!
October 31 2024 We invite you to consult our 2023-2024 Annual Report to appreciate the magnitude of the work accomplished thanks to your trust. This report is also an opportunity to recognize the impact of your commitment and to celebrate the strong relationships we have built together. Without your involvement, we would not be able […]
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Are Indigenous communities being set up to fail with the transfer of control of child welfare services? – IRPP
Is Ottawa negotiating the conditions for the transfer of child welfare to Indigenous communities to succeed, or programming their failure in advance with half-baked measures? The federal Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families (also known as Bill C-92) establishes a legal framework and standards for Indigenous control over child and […]
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Is Canada’s critical-minerals strategy a green shift or greenwashing? – IRPP
August 14, 2024 Indigenous and remote communities will bear the long-lasting ecological, social and cultural impacts of mining. This cannot be ignored. Canada has followed the lead of many countries recently by adopting policies and measures to promote rapid development of its value chain for domestic critical minerals essential in clean energy technology. Climate change, geopolitical and economic turmoil […]
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The troubling rise of income and wealth inequality in Canada – Policy Options
July 18, 2024 As the wealth gap becomes more pronounced, a comprehensive and co-ordinated approach is urgently needed to target root causes of economic disparity. Income and wealth inequality is a persistent and growing challenge in Canada. This is occurring at a time when the cost of living has risen sharply and the lowest-income households […]
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Looking North: Pension funds are key to developing Canada’s critical minerals – Policy Options
July 16, 2024 We need to focus on why, to what end and how our North is both Canada’s greatest investment opportunity and our greatest geopolitical insecurity. Canada needs long-term and venture capital to build infrastructure, innovate and develop its critical minerals to meet the global net-zero energy transition. Pension funds are key to that […]
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Canada must act to end the pretendian problem – IRPP
June 18, 2024 When the French and the British started staking their land claims on Turtle Island, they also began what became a centuries-long, surreptitious and destructive practice of interfering with Indigenous identity. It continues to this day. It began through brokerage between European invaders. After the decisive defeat of French colonial power, the British […]
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It is time for a Cancon quota for Indigenous music – IRPP
June 12, 2024 Indigenous musicians should have a bigger part of Canadian airwaves. A year ago, a group of First Nations artists and personalities publicly demanded a five per cent quota for music in Indigenous languages on commercial radio. A petition followed their demand last July. This idea was previously raised during consultations on the […]
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Industrial policy may have part of the answer to Canada’s productivity problem – Policy Options
April 24, 2024 If Canada’s low productivity is becoming an emergency, the government must use every tool to turn it around. Industrial policy should be among them. The Trudeau government’s latest budget contained a number of splashy items, ranging from housing policy to national defence. In the midst of a national housing crisis and with […]
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Yänonhchia’ would draw on First Nations’ proud history of sustainable housing – Policy Options
November 8, 2023 Scaling up an Indigenous-to-Indigenous housing finance model would get far more homes built where banks won’t go and where Ottawa won’t back loans. In better times for Canada, when safe, affordable and adequate housing was in far greater supply and taken for granted by most Canadians, First Nations housing was already in […]
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