Saskatchewan Infant Deaths Underscore Reserve Problems
Posted by Tad McIlwraith on February 2nd, 2008 filed in In the News, Rest of Canada
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)
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