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The Tsilhqot'in Decision and Canada's First Nations Termination Policies
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- Published on Tuesday, January 13 2015 00:05
By Russell Diabo
This is the first in a three-part series on the landmark Supreme Court of Canada Tsilhqot'in v. British Columbia decision last June, first published in First Nations Strategic Bulletin. The second article in this series, "The Tsilhqot’in Decision and Indigenous Self-Determination," can be found here. Part 3, "Canada Responds to Tsilhqot’in Decision: Extinguishment or Nothing!" is here.
On June 26, 2014, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) recognized that the Xeni Gwet'in Tsilhqot'in People have Aboriginal Title to a large part of their traditional territory. In the same decision, building on previous legal cases written to contain Section 35 of Canada's constitution (which provides constitutional protection to the aboriginal and treaty rights of Aboriginal peoples in Canada), the SCC set out a legal test for asserting and establishing Aboriginal Title in Canada.
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Why Greece's Elections Matter & the Politics of SYRIZA
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- Published on Tuesday, January 06 2015 04:12
On January 25, people in Greece will go to the polls. But this is no ordinary election. The situation in Greece is being widely watched because the election could be won by SYRIZA, a left-wing party pledged to end the austerity measures that have caused such harm in the country since 2010.
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2015: Beyond "Anything But Conservative"
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- Published on Monday, January 05 2015 09:00
By David Bush
At the end of 2014, RankandFile.ca, an online labour news publication, ran a competition for Scumbag of the Year. While we received many nominations of bad bosses and terrible politicians from across the country, unsurprisingly it was Stephen Harper who topped our readers' list to win this prestigious award.
The New Movement: Are We There Yet?
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- Published on Wednesday, December 10 2014 02:22
By Glen Ford
After decades of misleader-induced lethargy and quietude, Black America is finally in motion – or, at the very least, earnestly seeking ways to resist being plunged deeper into the abyss.
The Intractable Marginality of the Activist Left
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- Published on Friday, November 28 2014 21:51
By Stephen D'Arcy
Strikes are only one form of struggle, and perhaps less and less important as the years pass. But the disappearance of strikes — documented in the accompanying graph — is not an anomaly. It reflects a pattern of diminishing overall levels of oppositional social mobilization. Although there aren’t (as far as I know) statistics on it, it is obvious that levels of social struggle generally, in the Canadian state, are lower now than at any time since written records have been kept.