Two Cents Blog

Hill Times April 25, 2022 In 2019, British Columbia legislated to review provincial laws to ensure they are consistent with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), to develop an action plan, make annual reports on progress, and enable joint decision-making with Indigenous governing bodies. UNDRIP sets out the “minimum standard […]

Hill Times April 11, 2022 What makes a good apology? The senior leader needs to make the apology to show responsibility. The apology needs to be public to show honesty. Humans are highly adept in evaluating authenticity, that’s important. There’s also an art about the timing of an apology. And then there’s the two factors

Hill Times March 28, 2022 A few years ago, I attended a memorial for a First Nations youth who died in Thunder Bay. Like many other First Nations youth who have died in mysterious circumstances in the river that runs through the city, his death was not followed up by the local police. The stories

Hill Times March 14, 2022 Evidence is growing that Russia is perpetrating war crimes against the people of Ukraine. Russia is targeting civilians, hospitals, and nuclear power plants. Why would Russia threaten a nuclear accident on land they purport to want to control? Why would they target civilians, essentially their cousins? It is like there

Hill Times February 28, 2022 Are elected officials who cheered on the occupation a threat to minorities? Almost 200 people arrested, almost 400 charges, about 1,500 tickets for noise and parking and other infractions, 12 suspension and seizure orders on trucks and counting. And yet, some MPs and Senators want to be seen with this

Hill Times February 14, 2022 Nazi military names and colours worn openly on the street. Yellow stars worn as a symbol and perversion. Women being harassed for wearing masks and threatened with sexual assault.  LGBTQ2S harassed. Individuals swarmed because they are perceived by the occupiers to be counter-protesters, yet no arrests made by police. Occupiers claiming

Hill Times January 31, 2022 Aggressive convoys, conflicts, and wars all share a similar foundation—a decision to speak and act over others regardless of their rights and absent of our responsibilities to each other. Elder Woody Morrison would always smile in response to questions about what is truth. As an Elder, he carried with him

Hill Times January 17, 2022 Quebec Premier François Legault is forging a unique approach again: fine the unvaccinated. And immediately voices rise up in horror across the country to this affront to our Canadian way of being! The idea of fining the anti-vaxxers is bad policy. It’s punitive without fair trial so potentially infringes on

Hill Times December 20, 2021 Elementary school teacher Fatemeh Anvari was forced out of her classroom in Chelsea because she wears a hijab, thanks to Bill 21 which rules that civil servants not wear any religious symbols. Apparently, this is in the name of secularism, but let’s be real. It’s in the name of racism

Hill Times, December 6, 2021 It must be nice to not to fear the national police. It must be reassuring to have a level of trust in them. That trust is misplaced in the RCMP. Journalists Amber Bracken and Michael Toledano were arrested along with Sleydo’ and others working to protect the land against the