In practice, provinces exercise the power to allocate water to users. Merrell-Anne Phere asks the question in her new book "Denying the Source-The Crisis of First Nations Water Rights" that "Regarding waters that may be needed by First Nations...there is complete uncertainty as to who is in control of, or responsible for, or can allocate water. What entitlement do First Nations have? Eastern Canada is equally challenged for water. The Great Lakes represent 18 per cent of all freshwater on earth, and the renewable water supply is also challenged. Peter Annin warns us in the "Great Lakes Water Wars" that "less than one per cent of water in the lakes is considered renewable, that is, charged by rain, snowfall, and groundwater every year." He also informs us that, according to a report in ...
I had many relatives killed in Burundi. The reason I'm involved with Amnesty is because it's one of the few organizations that's documented the atrocities in Burundi. It's critical to mobilize people to be aware of, and to take concrete action to help stop violations of human rights wherever they occur," she said. "I was so impressed by what they had done," LeGal said. "It's all about empowering themselves. We've been raising money for them for the last three years in Winnipeg. But this is our first year in the run." Le Gal said she won't be running in the race but will be there supporting the volunteers.
The social context is a growing public anxiety about China on a panoply of issues including human rights, democracy, economic competition, product safety, climate change, foreign policy in the developing world, and military modernization.
The support is much needed. Winnipeg Harvest reports that the number of people relying on food banks increased by 21 per cent between September 2008 and September 2009. They provide food to more than 40,000 individuals each month. Like food banks across Canada, Winnipeg Harvest has become a permanent fixture in the mix of institutions serving those struggling to survive between paycheques. But food banks have not always been part of our landscape. They began to spring up across the country in 1981, when "fiscal constraint" became the mantra of governments in Britain, the U.S. and Canada. Governments began to cut back on social spending thereby unravelling a social safety net that, while far from perfect, helped people meet their basic needs. Ironically, the social safety net developed i...
... to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary -- Ma... Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. On one hand, it is difficult to criticize the cha...
The Arctic is our homeland. The Arctic defines who we are, in turn our presence and way of life helps define the Arctic. We are as strongly Canadian as we are Inuit," [Mary Simon] said. Nevertheless the younger generation has embraced new technologies like the Internet and e-mail. "And collectively," Simon said, "Inuit own large tracts of land, some with full sub-surface rights. There is a great desire in the Arctic to achieve economic self-sufficiency in ways that build our cultural values into the new economy. "There are many things we can do in our daily lives. Let us deploy our shared values of humanity, social justice, and environmental responsibility to ensure that the Arctic is, in the eyes of the world, a proud and shining part of Canada's identity, imagination, and future," S...
The committee is concerned that, despite Canada's economic prosperity and the reduction of the number of people living below the Low Income Cut Off (poverty indicator), 11.2 per cent of its population still lived in poverty in 2004," says the 11-page report. The panelists urge Ottawa to provide "adequate child-care services" as a way of allowing women to exercise their right to work, as guaranteed by the covenant. "It's not clear what the United Nations has against low-income workers because raising the minimum wage inevitably pushes many of them outside the workforce," said Fred McMahon, international studies director with the Fraser Institute. "The United Nations should recognize that Canada is a democracy, and that we just elected a government that has a right to set its own policie...
... agreed economic, social and cultural rights. The independent experts behind the report say min...
The report recommends that CIDA be abolished and the business of handling foreign aid be turned over to the Department of Foreign Affairs. Whatever the solution, the commitment that Canadians have to maintaining and increasing foreign aid is deeply held, a humanitarianism that deserves a better vehicle to carry it out than CIDA has offered. A majority of Canadians, according to the poll, agrees with the senators that foreign aid -- CIDA has about $4.5 billion this year to spend -- should be concentrated on only a few countries in the hope that it can actually accomplish something useful. They are more evenly divided about whether this country should set political, economic and human rights standards of eligibility for aid, but few, one suspects, see the sense in giving millions to China...
I think what everybody is saying is that the process is fundamentally flawed," said [Stewart Phillip], a central figure in the protests leading up to the treaty legislation's introduction. "This has nothing to do with recognizing our rights. We should expect resource rights for our economic benefit on an ongoing basis. "This process is 14 years old," said [Doug Kelly], "It has cost $1 billion dollars and it's got one treaty. That's not something to be celebrating." "What's really important is that people need to support their leadership," he said. "We've structured an action committee to bring public attention to our issues."
Beijing's strong response to Canadian protests about human rights in general in China and the treatment of Mr. Celil in particular show that the country's Communist rulers are sensitive to such accusations. There is a good reason for that. China's economic revolution has taken place almost in a human rights vacuum. Beijing's rulers saw the collapse of the Communist system in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe that accompanied economic reform and learned from it. From the suppression of the Falun Gong to the censorship -- the co-opting, in fact -- of the Internet to persecution of ethnic minorities, China's repression is brutal and unrelenting. It fights foreign pressure to reform with bribery -- look how many widgets you can sell here, how much money you can make -- and it often works.
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