#MSF/Doctors Without Borders addressed the UN Security Council.
Outside the meeting, Remy Carriere, Emergency MSF co-ordinator just back from #Gaza said he didn't think many humanitarian organizations could function in #Gaza without the services provided by #unwra.
He also said,
"A lot of the services everybody is receiving is because UNWRA is functional today."
Canadians: Please sign and share my e-4802 petition to restore UNWRA funding
Although we need tio #DefundThePolice, it is important to understand tthat the #CDNpoli Judicial System allows these egregious breaches of what are supposed to be #CharterRights
“Proportional representation will ensure that a minority will never rule. It also will ensure that no considerable minority will ever be excluded from having a voice Is that not democracy?
"What have the self- appointed protagonists of democracy and majority rule in this House to say about that?
A Toronto Star Opinion Piece by Martin Reg Conn desperately tries to justify the Ontario election result in “Get Over It: Doug Ford’s Victory was an example of how democracy is supposed to work.”
But is it really?
The purpose of Democracy is to give people a say in our own governance. In a Direct Democracy that would mean citizens themselves directly make laws and government policies. As in a referendum.
But ours is a Representative Democracy, which means citizens choose representatives to represent us when making laws and policies in Parliament.
We have to support students by abolishing tuition and forgiving all federally owned student debt as soon as possible.
That is why Annamie Paul has promised to do this within the first week of a green mandate. We’re calling on @justinpjtrudeau @erinotoolemp and @jagmeetsingh to do the same.
We have to support students by abolishing tuition and forgiving all federally owned student debt as soon as possible.
That is why Annamie Paul has promised to do this within the first week of a green mandate. We’re calling on @justinpjtrudeau @erinotoolemp and @jagmeetsingh to do the same.
Decades after the Supreme Court of Canada confirmed the inherent right of Indigenous people to hunt and fish, both for sustenance and a #ModerateLivelihood, the Canadian Government has yet to work with the First Nations Peoples signatory to the Peace and Friendship Treaties to establish a reasonable definition of what that means.
Chief Michael Sack said,
“We’ll define our own moderate livelihood. We’re not here to have anybody decide anything for us. We’ll decide as a Mi'kmaq nation and and move forward that way.”
Which is why the Sipekne'katik First Nation decided to establish its own fishery infrastructure, launched exactly 21 years after the SCC’s Marshall decision. Donald Marshall Jr.’s son Randy Sack received the first of the seven moderate livelihood licenses (50 tags each) issued by the Sipekne'katik Fishery to the Indian Brook band on September 17th. To date a total of 10 licenses, each allows the licensee to use a maximum of 50 traps. That is a total of 500 traps. Contrast that with the 900,000 traps used by the Commercial Fisheries.
The reaction by Commercial Fishers has been violent, and Indigenous fishers have faced threats and intimidation, been shot at with flare guns, had their gear stolen or vandalized, trucks and boats destroyed, and since a Lobster Pound that dealt with Commercial and Indigenous fishers was targeted, vandalized and destroyed, others are refusing to do business with them. Today Chief Sack got a Court Injunction to help protect his people and their Moderate Livelihood Fishery.
“Charles: I think a lot of people don’t fully understand what the Indigenous communities’ rights are. They don’t fully understand that the First Nations have rights that are different from the privileges to fish that non-Natives have.” — Hakai Magazine: Mi’kmaw Fishery Dispute Is Not About Conservation, Scientists Say
New GPC Leader Annamie Paul’s press conference on why Greens will not support the Throne Speech.
Government failure to adequately address Long Term Care, properly provide for all Canadians with a UBI, and jeopardizing the future by failing to address climate change.
