Native woman launches court challenge against federal government over being denied
First Nation status, Toronto Star
Labor will build public support to meet the goal of providing constitutional recognition of
the First Nations status of Indigenous Australians and their custodianship of land and waters;
Not exact matches
In 2011, similar squabbles led to credit agencies downgrading the
nation's debt from its triple A
status for the
first time 70 years.
The Kaska maintain it resets rules on all
First Nations land regardless of treaty
status.
But the latest carries special importance: this will be the
first budget of the country's 11th Malaysia Plan, generally referred to as 11MP, a five - year plan aiming to plot a course for the country to leave its «emerging»
status behind to become a developed
nation by 2020.
«We firmly believe that a diversity of perspectives leads to better decisions and helps drive corporate performance,» says Steve Williams, CEO of Suncor, whose 12 - member board includes three women and a
First Nations executive, and factors in age, gender, ethnicity and aboriginal
status in filling vacancies.
Already more than 16,000 lakes and rivers within Canada have had their protected
status removed in order to facilitate oil exploration and resource mining on
First Nations land.
I suspected when I
first heard this claim that the Committee on the
Status of Black Americans, loaded as it was with social scientists, had demolished a straw man, a bloodless construct so rigidly defined as to be meaningless in terms of the actual lives of the humans who inhabit the
nation's ghettos and who, for the most part, make up what has come to be called the underclass.
Both Obama, the
nation's
first black president, and Romney, a Mormon, have found that their shared
status as members of minority groups and political pioneers, in many ways, has also changed the rules of this presidential campaign cycle, said Nancy Wadsworth, co-editor of the anthology «Faith and Race in American Political Life.»
Caribou Coffee hence became the
first major coffeehouse chain in the
nation to achieve this
status, which means all of its coffee is grown under the highest standards of sustainability.
of
status First Nations children live in poverty.
To evaluate the current
status of knowledge regarding the effectiveness of breastfeeding interventions targeting minorities, we conducted PubMed searches in February 2011 using «breastfeeding» and «randomized trial» along with each of the following descriptors: Latina, Latino, Hispanic, black, African American, Asian, Native American,
First Nation, Indian, minority, and low income.
At 9:40 a.m., NYC
First Lady Chirlane McCray delivers remarks at a U.N. Commission on the
Status of Women side event hosted by the Mayor's Office for International Affairs, Consulate General of Germany, 871 United
Nations Plaza, Manhattan.
Singapore evolved from a developing
nation to
first world
status towards the end of the 20th century.
He said, «The President is the
first public officer of the
nation, so it will be right for him to make his health
status public and for other public office holders to also make theirs public.
First Executive in the
Nation to Issue Statewide Regulations Prohibiting Harassment and Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity, Transgender
Status or Gender Dysphoria
This inspirational short documents her rise from rags to riches as she reaches world number one
status and attempts to become her
nation's
first ever female Olympic medallist.
The Disaster Artist opens with a bunch of Hollywood swells (J.J. Abrams, Adam Scott, Kristen Bell, etc.) discussing how they
first heard of The Room, which was four - walled by director Tommy Wiseau and advertised on a billboard in Los Angeles before achieving cult
status around the
nation.
During the same period, the gap between the health
status of blacks and whites also widened, according to the report, «Health, United States, 1991 and Prevention Profile,» which charts the
nation's
first decadelong drive to achieve specific health goals.
When Miami - Dade public schools rolled out their performance pay plan to fanfare and cheering last year, it was the
first district in Florida to get a head start on what will become a mandated policy in 2014 and felt like it took on frontrunner
status in the
nation.
The president also told students that getting into college isn't enough, challenging their generation to help the United States regain its
first - in - the - world
status as the country with the highest proportion of college graduates (the
nation currently ranks 16th).
Eligible students must be
Status Indian /
First Nations (or be able to provide a copy of proof of Indigenous ancestry) with at least 60 per cent of a full course load.
Colorado has been considered a leader in the
nation's sustainable initiatives and it «s state capital was the
first to go green by achieving LEED Gold
status in 2008.
Karey primarily acts for
First Nations and
First Nations organizations in court and negotiations with government and industry on matters relating to Aboriginal rights and title, consultation, regulatory matters, including environmental assessments, and general governance matters, including
status and membership issues.
Presentation (with L. Rotman), «Environmental Protection and
First Nations: Changing the
Status Quo», March 1 - 2, 1993, Doing Business with
First Nations, The Canadian Institute (Toronto).
Stoney is the son of parents who had been members of the Sawridge
First Nation at one point, but gave up their
status for an enfranchisement payment.
The treatment of
First Nation Chiefs as «heads of state» at the Olympics will have real significance if this
status is accorded
First Nations beyond the Olympics.
She followed up her initial posts with interesting information about the experience of having a post go viral, and then further discussion of
First Nations finances and Indian
status generally.
Protocol usually follows political
status, but is this a case when protocol might lead to a more firmly grounded recognition of the
First Nations as sovereign n
Nations as sovereign
nationsnations?
The term Aboriginal includes
First Nations, Inuk or Inuit, Métis,
Status Indian, or Non-
Status Indian.
This term refers to a legal
status applied to certain
First Nations individuals who are registered under the Indian Act on the Indian Register.
While some communities of
First Nations people who are «
status Indians» under the Indian Act do receive funding from the federal government to pay for some students» tuition, living expenses and books, that funding is significantly limited.
I
first presented this paper at the United
Nations Economic and Social Council's Commission on the
Status of Women «s 53rd Annual General Meeting, and further refined it after some comparative legal studies this summer.
Historically, the Government of Canada has recognized special program responsibilities and obligations only toward
First Nations people with
status -LRB-
While groups like the National Indian Brotherhood (now the Assembly of
First Nations) worked to represent those who had
status, others, like the Canadian Métis Society, developed to represent those without
status.
Over 90 per cent of persons with registered Indian
status identified as
First Nations people.
Beyak, who made news throughout 2017 for comments about what she saw as the «good» done at Indian Residential Schools and for her call for
First Nations people to «give up their
status cards and become Canadian,» published letters from supporters on her website between June and August 2017 and added more letters in October.
They want to change the contempt with which they are treated, they want to end the blockage placed in front of them designed to quash their aspirations and heritage, they want to end the mentality of relegation that sees so many
First Nations forced into to the lowest
status imaginable by the political and cultural mainstream.
During the various campaigns to force assimilation on
First Nations people the government (and later Parliament) elected to deny Indian
status to newborn children unless the mother were willing to identify the father.7 (It is worth noting that the right of the mother to identify the father and, indeed, to advise the father of his paternity remains an issue today.
will hopefully lead to Canada revisiting its arbitrary and exclusionary policies towards Métis and non-
status Indians (i.e., members of
First Nations who are not able to register as «
status Indians» under the Indian Act).
I have long understood this statement to refer to eliminating eligibility for Indian
status and eliminating
First Nations communities.
Second, police data do not consistently identify whether victims of violence have Aboriginal
status, and if they are
First Nations, Métis or Inuit.
More than 74.9 per cent of
First Nations people had Indian
status.
One where
status Indians have been denied band membership at Peters
First Nation where the Kinder Morgan pipeline runs directly through.
That
status quo is the ongoing national disgrace of the
first peoples of this
nation dying up to 20 - years younger than other citizens; something that would not be tolerated in other parts of the population.
In order to control for confounds on the association of
nation attachment with acculturation, we ran a multi-level model with residence
status (included as a moderator and coded such that migrants were allocated a value of 1, and participants living in their country of birth a value of − 1), neuroticism, general avoidant and anxious attachment as predictors in the
first block.
Their development and application, however, could lead to improved quality of care and overall health
status for
First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples by: providing the skills, knowledge and attitudes that public health practitioners could draw upon to provide culturally competent and safe health services to Aboriginal individuals and communities; improving academic curriculum, training programs, professional certification, health services planning, health policy, and health program evaluation standards; and providing standardized assessment criteria to help governments and organizations share best practices more efficiently and promote culturally safe health services.
Let the new Representative Body set the vision for our people's future, provide the guidance to achieve this and advocate for understanding for the consequences that flow from our
status as the
First Peoples of this
nation.
The NCCAH's resources contextualize the distinct and unique historical and contemporary forces which influence
First Nations, Inuit and Métis health, health
status and health outcomes in Canada.
Let the new Representative Body set the vision for our people's future, provide the guidance to achieving this and advocate for understanding for the consequences that flow from our
status as the
First Peoples of this
nation.