Two shy, charming girls about age 8 approached me with delightful smiles—one holding some flowers. I motioned to them that I would like to take their photo, and their smiles grew even broader. They didn’t appear to speak English, so I wordlessly gave them each a chocolate candy bar before waving goodbye as they scampered…
Fight Over How to Define Métis Identity Is Both Deeply Problematic and Racist
Commentary Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 recognized “the Aboriginal and treaty rights of the Aboriginal peoples of Canada,” explicitly including “Métis peoples.” At the time, however, the Constitution’s framers offered no clear idea of what they meant by “Métis. The word “Métis” refers to the descendants of a union between an aboriginal and…
Education is Today’s Civil Rights Issue
April 10, 2022
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Commentary Across the political spectrum, a new orthodoxy on indigenous issues has taken hold since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the one for murdered and missing women. Reconciliation and compensation require ever more taxpayers’ money, and elimination of accountability for how it’s spent. My problem is that incontinent compassion doesn’t cut it. The…
Chinese Rare-Earth Project in Doubt After Greenland Opposition Wins Election
HELSINKI—Greenland’s main opposition party, which is against an international mining project involving uranium and other metals on the Arctic island, has emerged as the biggest party after winning more than a third of votes in an early parliamentary election, according to initial results. With nearly all votes counted Wednesday, the left-leaning Community of the People…
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