The Indian Act has entrenched Indigenous inequality in Canada, writes senator McCallum. It is often very funny, and often very painful. . Colonization Road screened twice on 6 January 2017, […]

Research2Reality is made possible through the support of the following partners: The Gairdner Awards are Canada's most prestigious awards in biomedical research. Yvonne Niego grew up in Baker Lake, Nunavut, the geographical center of Canada which sits well into the mainland of Nunavut west inward from the coast of the Hudson Bay north of …

What would happen without a police force to prevent or punish crime? It’s the beginning of what’s called the school-to-prison pipeline. “Deployments of SWAT teams — special weapons and tactics units — have risen in major Canadian cities and are higher in some cases than those by U.S. public police,” write Kevin Walby, associate professor of criminal justice at the University of Winnipeg and Brendan Roziere, law student at the University of Manitoba in The Conversation. When some churches used to learn that their pastors were pedophiles, they used to ship them to other churches so that children they didn’t know would be victims, and their own church might not have a scandal. And what would the alternative look like? We can’t deny their lived experience because not everyone has had the same negative interactions with police. It’s time to have uncomfortable conversation with Canadians to inform them that the myth of the rule of law is holding Indigenous peoples back.

It’s hard to see how reform could reverse an entrenched racial bias. Justice For Regis — Not Another Black Life rally and March — May 30, 2020. Never miss the latest scientific scoops from some of Canada’s greatest minds! Earth Minute: Genetically Modified Crops The biotech industry has long claimed that gene-edited or genetically modified crops do not need to be regulated by the federal government due to “indistinguishable” changes made... Jessica Corbett, staff writer"Baseless allegations of systematic deficiencies, notably by the incumbent president, including on election night, harm public trust in democratic institutions," the delegation concluded. Have they stopped school shootings? But what is known to actually prevent crimes are well-funded social services. Canada’s operating expenditures for policing totaled $15.1 billion in 2017/2018. The hatred is not just against adults, but against children. 4h ago. “Based on our research, we can see that militarization has been normalized within Canada’s largest police services. Image credit: Jason Hargrove, CC-BY-2.0. 1h ago.

It is too dangerous for our children to have armed police in schools.

We are home to thousands of cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women. We need to ask important questions about whether this keeps Canadians safe, or puts them at heightened risk. “Mother rejects school apology for do-rag comment, wants ban lifted”, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/mother-rejects-apology-do-rag-1.5325595, “Almost half of TDSB students expelled over last 5 years are black, report says.”, http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/almost-half-of-tdsb-students-expelled-over-last-5-years-are-black-report-says-1.4065088, “Black Girls Are Viewed As Less Innocent Than White Girls Starting At Age 5: Study.”, http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/young-black-girls-less-innocent-study_us_59526e51e4b05c37bb7982d2, “Black Boys Viewed as Older, Less Innocent Than Whites, Research Finds. Get research news in your inbox every Tuesday, A ‘Global We’ to Take On Cardiovascular Disease, How Your Phone Could Actually Help Your Mental Health, It’s Not a Magic Pill, but It’s Pretty Close. From 2000-2017, a CBC investigation found 461 fatal police encounters in Canada. It depends on the model”, https://theconversation.com/police-in-schools-helpful-or-harmful-it-depends-on-the-model-91836, “Canada's largest school board votes to end armed police presence in schools”, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/school-resource-officers-toronto-board-police-1.4415064. WINNIPEG — An award-winning architect says she has dealt with much worse in her professional life than a joke Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister made about her fashion choices, but she feels compelled to call out his focus on her footwear over her work. It should come as no surprise that the virus is disproportionately affecting low-income, racialized, and immigrant communities. A mother called the police for help and her daughter died.

Yvonne Niego. In Winnipeg, Indigenous people make up 10.6 percent of the population, but make up almost two thirds of victims. Some of the most significant impacts these non-renewables have is on air quality — especially in communities near power plants that burn fossil fuels. It fits the legal definition of genocide. I agree to my email address being stored and used to receive the newsletter. It’s hard to see how reform could reverse an entrenched racial bias. Non-renewable energy sources — primarily fossil fuels like coal, natural gas and oil — have a serious impact on the environment. That kind of racism is what led to an Edmonton Catholic School suspending an 11-year-old child for wearing a do-rag, on the absurd claim that doing so indicated gang affiliation. The American Psychological Association Monitor reports that Europeans in North America view African boys as “older, less innocent than whites.”. Lower taxes, no spineless leadership, or dumb mayors rambling on at press conferences... Plus... we got your back!". Despite making up only 8.3 percent of the population of Toronto, Black people represented 37 percent of the city’s fatalities. Subscribe now to get a weekly summary of our top stories. SWAT teams, once considered a last-resort option for police forces, are now being used in routine areas of policing.”. That’s criminal and deranged indifference to suffering. Amidst unrest in Canada and the United States over recent deaths of Black people involving the police, dismantling the police is an idea that is starting to gain attention. The RCMP was an institution created to control Indigenous people and their (stolen) land, says Jocelyn Thorpe, professor of history and women and gender studies at the University of Manitoba. Children subject to early alienation from school due to teacher and police are much more likely to drop-out, which leads to worse and shorter lives that often include prison. “The police will continue to remain a threat to the lives of Black and Indigenous communities unless we acknowledge the larger narrative of a colonial paradigm,” said Alicia Boatswain-Kyte, assistant professor of social work at McGill University in a press release. January 9, 2017 — There are lots of ways to explore the past, and one of them is through film. Increased police presence, where officers have lawful authorization to kill, doesn’t make these communities feel safer against crime. Thousands of Torontonians marched in support of justice for 29-year-old Regis Korchinski-Paquet, a young woman of Black and Indigenous heritage who fell from her balcony to her death with only the police with her in her apartment. creates opportunities for critical analysis of other documents on MMIWG such as the RCMP 2015 Update , the Forsaken (2012) report, and a variety of other official documents to determine what types of discourses are used to (re)present Indigenous women.