#The case for an inquiry into Canada’s treatment of First Nations children

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“#The case for an inquiry into Canada’s treatment of First Nations children” Cindy Blackstock: ‘Canada continues to treat First Nations people as if they are not worth the money by providing deficient public services on reserves and choosing to not implement solutions’ Cindy Blackstock, a member of the Gitxsan First Nation, is the executive director of…

#Cindy Blackstock: A relentless champion for Indigenous children’s rights

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“#Cindy Blackstock: A relentless champion for Indigenous children’s rights” She serves as executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, whose litigation against Canada has secured hundreds of thousands of services for First Nations youth Cindy Blackstock is No. 27 on the 2021 Maclean’s Power List, a ranking of 50 influential Canadians. Click here…

#Burying Sir John A. Macdonald

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“#Burying Sir John A. Macdonald” Mi’kmaq historian Daniel Paul believes that Sir John A. Macdonald’s days in the sun are numbered. Paul, 81, is the author of We Were Not the Savages, a landmark 1993 book that for the first time told the history of Atlantic Canada from the Mi’kmaq perspective. In the 1980s, Paul…