The self-governance of custom systems may allow communities to drift away from the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
aboriginal issues
March 23, 2017
9:56AM
August 15, 2016
11:25AM
The Métis are better off than First Nations precisely because they have always been independent and self-supporting.
July 28, 2016
1:08PM
Hydro transmission line may run along west side of Lake Manitoba.
June 21, 2016
3:00AM
First Nations bands with real property taxation bylaws perform significantly better than bands without.
March 10, 2016
1:30AM
February 6, 2015
9:30AM
More than 10,700 British Columbians were employed in the mining sector in 2013 with an average salary and benefits totalling $114,600. That same year, the mining industry contributed $511 million in revenues to the B.C. government. However, the industry faces an uncertain future.
December 15, 2014
10:00AM
In a letter to Richard Price in 1789, Thomas Jefferson wrote "whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights." In other words, an informed electorate possesses the knowledge to hold their government accountable.
January 9, 2014
2:00AM
If Canadians wonder why little progress has been made in bringing prosperity to First Nations communities, they just received another reminder from an Ottawa-based think tank that reinforces the status quo approach to Aboriginal policy: spend more tax dollars.
In a recent column published in PostMedia papers ('Catching up on Aboriginal services is not cheap,') Brian Lee Crowley of the Macdonald Laurier Institute took issue with and was highly critical of our recent study, which documented a portion of the tax dollars spent on Aboriginal matters.