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Reena Virk: Critical Perspectives on a Canadian Murder
One Brown girl. Two killers with white privilege. Seven attackers. Twenty onlookers. This is the Reena Virk case.
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Gaza: Defiant City
This is not a war. It is a slaughter — Dresden 2009. So far, over 1,300 Palestinians have been killed, a third of them children. Thirteen Israelis are dead, most of them victims of friendly fire. As we have seen on our television screens, all of Gaza has been turned into rubble with the children of Gaza mutilated, bleeding and dead. We can barely imagine the psychic wounds inflicted on 1.5 million cowering civilians subjected to 1,000- and 2,000-pound bombs, 155 mm artillery shells, cluster munitions, heavy mortar fire, air-to-ground missiles, white phosphorus and high-powered tank shells.
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The Emperor’s Old Clothes
It’s hard to know where to begin with this book, which purports to be a kind of “expose” of the use of Aboriginal traditional knowledge in policy making and ranges far afield into a critique of the idea of Indigenous rights and a survey of problems in the fields of Aboriginal healthcare, education, self-government, land claims, and so on. I had previously written these authors off as “kooks” from the far political right wing; but now they have been embraced by certain prominent left academics and have themselves started to gloss their opinions with Marxist rhetoric.
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Toward a New Policy Paradigm for First Peoples
The current policy paradigm surrounding Aboriginal issues is locked within a very narrow compass of possibility. The two major ideas that emerged in the last decade were the proposals around the Governance Act, rejected by most First Nations leaders, and the Kelowna Accord, endorsed by the Assembly of First Nations, but dead in the water thanks to the current regime.
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“Education” for Indians: The Colonial Experiment on Piapot’s Kids
Recently, members of my band, Piapot, occupied the local school in protest against Indian Affairs policies that blatantly ignore the needs of Indian children as human beings within a democratic and equal society. I felt hopeful when the parents on the reserve began to protest the substandard education offered at the band school. But in the end the protest was less successful than I had hoped.
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Iraq: the resistance resists
The resistance resists; every block, every house, every store rings out with gunfire; the resistance is everywhere. Every house takes hits—the resistance fights on. Hundreds of Iraqis have been killed, thousands have been injured and many more will die, but after each funeral tens of thousands more—the peaceful, apolitical, “wait-and-see” ones—have taken up the gun.
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Racism in Canada
As part of our plans to celebrate CD’s 40 years of publication, our Editorial Collective asked certain writers to reflect on racism in Canada and consider whether or not it has diminished over this forty-year time span. Their excellent contributions appear in this issue of Dimension.
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40 Years in Indian Country
The past forty years have seen dramatic changes among the Aboriginal peoples of Canada. In 1963 the legacy of colonialism was deeply entrenched, Aboriginal peoples were seen as a ‘problem population’ within Canada, Aboriginal rights were widely ignored and unknown, there were few national voices or fora for Aboriginal leaders. In 2003 the struggle to decolonize is being engaged in a wide variety of institutions.
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