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Manitoba’s provincial government has declined to support a search for three murdered Indigenous women, citing health and safety concerns. An ethicist explains why this decision needs to be rethought.
In today’s episode, we hear from two women who talk about how diamond mines in the Northwest Territories have negatively impacted women and girls and perpetuated gender violence.
Ending the Canadian genocide of Indigenous peoples is a legal obligation, requiring honest, active decolonization. The lawyer who wrote the MMIWG’s inquiry’s legal analysis of genocide explains.
Based on tweets written by 735 candidates from Canada’s five major political parties, Indigenous issues are not on the national radar this election campaign. That’s both strange and short-sighted.
To make meaningful progress on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action, all provinces and territories should promptly follow B.C. and ban discriminatory ‘birth alerts.’
Political scientists concern themselves with ideas of democracy. Now that Canada’s PM has accepted the finding of genocide, this changes how and what political scientists need to discuss.
The final MMIWG report says that genocide does not refer only to the deliberate murder of some or all members of a particular social group. It also refers to the destruction of a group as a social unit.
The tireless grassroots efforts of Indigenous activists unearth colonialism’s hidden secrets and the stories of the land and people to bring the murdered and missing women and girls home.
The attempt to grapple with genocide by the MMIWG commission is about more than simply applying international law to the facts. It’s also about decolonizing the international law of genocide itself.
The United States could learn from Canada’s national attention being put on the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
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Professor of Political Science, University of Guelph
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Associate Professor, Sociology, Bishop's University
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Professeur associé/Adjunct professor, École nationale d'administration publique, École nationale d'administration publique (ENAP)
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Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Clinical Lecturer, University of Calgary
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Associate Professor and Director of the First Nations House of Learning, University of British Columbia
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Professor, McGill University
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Professeur agrégé, École nationale d'administration publique (ENAP)
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Professeure titulaire en droit et titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada sur la justice internationale pénale et les droits fondamentaux , Université Laval
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Assistant Professor, Global Development Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
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Formerly the Victim Services Coordinator for the Native Women's Association of the Northwest Territories
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Professor, Associate Dean, and Canada Research Chair, Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba
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Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations, University of Windsor
