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130 million girls deserve an education so they can become empowered women
By
Doreen Nicoll
| January 25, 2017

The other night I watched the movie The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016). This biographical drama stars Dev Patel as Srinivasa Ramanujan, a brilliant mathematician who created complex formulas in his head. The difficulty arose when those in power required written proof of his theories.

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The legacy of colonization: Two poets 'dance with memory' and 'cock a fist'

The Red Files; Burning in this Midnight Dream

by Lisa Bird-Wilson; Louise Bernice Halfe
(Nightwood Editions; Coteau Books,
2016;
$18.95; $16.95)

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Lisa Bird-Wilson knows how to make words cut and sting.

In her debut poetry collection The Red Files Bird-Wilson skewers government attempts at an apology for residential schools.

"You sowed these seeds and you

apologize for having done this

thing that is still in the doing"

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Tears are fine, but will Trudeau respect Indigenous rights to resources?
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Karl Nerenberg
| December 18, 2015

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau deserves full marks for his reaction to the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on residential schools.

Indigenous Canadians can now hope that the new federal government will show them genuine respect.

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Orange Shirt Day Sept. 30: Reflect on Aboriginal children in the residential school system
September 28, 2015 |
A day to remember the atrocious treatment of more than 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children, who were taken from their families and forced into residential schools to assimilate.
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Nuu-chah-nulth Nations continue to fight for right to fish

What do fish have to do with Truth and Reconciliation? A lot.

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What fish have to do with truth and reconciliation

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In June, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada released its findings about the more than 120 years of abuse and neglect by the federal government when tens of thousands of Aboriginal children were sent to Indian Residential Schools run by the churches.

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The miseducation of Augie Merasty

The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir

by Joseph A. Merasty, David Carpenter
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Early Canadians shed light on barbaric cultural practices in the present

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Consider this a pre-Canada Day column on pre-Canadians and what became of them. One effect of solemn national origin days is often to obscure any downsides that might've existed then or since. On the U.S.'s first Independence Day, only about a third of colonists were supportive. At Confederation, P.E.I. opted out and support elsewhere was shaky. A stark example is Palestine-Israel. On the Israeli side it's Independence Day; among Palestinians, Catastrophe Day.

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Rachel Notley
Rachel Notley offers a dignified argument for healing and acknowledgement of past wrongs against First Nations citizens
By
David J. Climenhaga
| June 23, 2015

VICTORIA, B.C.

From the vantage point of the capital city of another Western Canadian province, it was hard not to feel enormous pride in Alberta Premier Rachel Notley after she apologized in the Legislature yesterday for the failure of Alberta's past political leaders to speak up against the residential schools system, its goals and the national tragedy to which it has contributed.

It is particularly important in this context, in the words spoken by Premier Notley, that Alberta has now joined the chorus of voices calling for a national inquiry into the parallel tragedy of missing and murdered Aboriginal women.

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Canada's First Nations push back against centuries of murder, abuse and neglect
By
Doreen Nicoll
| June 10, 2015

Victors write the history books. They write versions that are often coloured by their perceptions and the image they want to portray. They hope that time will erase any trace of wrongdoing or injustices imposed on others. But, they forget that memories are long and passed from generation to generation. They forget that some bystanders will not be silenced or stopped until justice is served.

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