Ottawa/CMEDIA: Statistics Canada’s 2021 Census of Population included for the first time a question on gender at birth, allowing all cisgender, transgender, and non-binary individuals to report their gender. Canada is …
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New York/Cmedia: The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) called on Thursday, for Canada to fully address long-standing gender-based discrimination in its Indian Act, which continues …
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Vancouver (BC)/CMEDIA: 31st Women’s Memorial March in honor of murdered and missing women and girls is reportedly being observed today with thousands of people gathered in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. #Canada; #BC; …
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#Canada; #BC; #SupportFirstNationResearch; #FormerResidentialSchoolSites Vancouver (B.C.)/CMEDIA: A funding totalling $2,027,520 to support Stó:lō Nation research and commemoration activities around former residential school sites was announced today by David Jimmie, Chief …
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#UN; #ClimateChange; #EarthPermafrost; #thawing; #IndigenousCommunities; #Arctic New York/CMEDIA: Earth’s permafrost is thawing, and indigenous communities in the Arctic and scientists around the world say it’s high time this alarming loss …
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#Manitoba; #Canada; #NCTR; #ResidentialSchools Ottawa/CMEDIA: The federal government has signed a memorandum of agreement with the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) to hand over more than 875,000 documents …
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#Indigenous; #NationalCouncilforReconciliation; #TruthandReconciliationCommission; Ottawa,/CMEDIA: The creation of a National Council for Reconciliation (NCR) as a national Indigenous-led oversight body is a vital milestone to implementing the Calls to Action from …
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Image: MMIWG. Image credit: Twitter handle of AmericanIndian8 #Regina; #Saskatchewan; #Indigenous; #MMIWG; #2SLGBTQQIA; #JusticeCanada; #CaringHeartsCounselling Ottawa/cmedia: Canada’s ongoing national tragedy that needs to end violence against Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit, …
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Image: Patty Hajdu. Image credit: Twitter handle Military assistance is being sought by a First Nation in northern Ontario for a week after it declared an emergency over a COVID-19 …
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