Friday, February 29, 2008
Last week, Marilyn Scales wrote an opinion piece in the Canadian Mining Journal in which she called for aboriginal people to participate in compromises around the preservation of ‘wilderness’ and development of industry. She wrote: Somewhere between preserving the wilderness as it was and exploiting it for modern conveniences, there is a compromise. That compromise [...]
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Douglas College is hosting a series of speakers on topics related to aboriginal experiences living in a settler society. The overarching theme is reconciliation. The website for the series provides some detail and context: Reconciliation is about recognizing the terrible injustices that have been inflicted on Aboriginal people in the past … Reconciliation is about [...]
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Dease Lake Caribou Originally uploaded by TFM I spent last week — my reading break — in northwestern British Columbia. It was my first trip back to the area during the winter since I completed my dissertation fieldwork in March of 2003. It was a real treat to visit old friends. Some things hadn’t changed: [...]
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Chief Judith Sayers (Hupacasath; Port Alberni), Grand Chief Ed John (Tl’azt’en; First Nations Summit), and Dave Porter (Kaska Dena; First Nations Summit) break down the significance of the Tsilhqot’in Decision in theTyee.ca. Gist: In recognizing the Aboriginal title and rights of the Tsilhqot’in Nation, Justice Vickers has effectively quashed the legal strategy of the provincial [...]
Saturday, February 9, 2008
… writes Mark Milke in the National Post: … Canadians in general are suspicious of any policy that provides favourable treatment to certain Canadians on the basis of their race. A national poll in 2003 from the Centre for Research and Information found 49% of all Canadians believed that “few or none” of the hundreds [...]
CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada hosts “Hockey Day in Canada,” the annual tribute to the game of hockey tomorrow, February 9, 2008. As usual, all six Canadian NHL teams are in action but given the quirky schedule, some of the games involve American-based opponents. What really caught my attention is that the broadcast languages will [...]
Saturday, February 2, 2008
The accounts of two little girls freezing to death on a Saskatchewan reserve provokes sadness and anger beyond words. The living conditions on Canadian reserves — limited access to phones, bad water, the quality of reserve governments — are surely major factors in their deaths. Also “Problems of Governance” (National Post, Feb 2, 2008) Sphere: [...]
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