APTN, the Aboriginal News Agency, did a report on the 2013 UN report on Right of Indigenous People of Canada and found that Aboriginal people of Canada are having human rights violated, these rights include socioeconomic rights. The socioeconomic rights violated are health care, education, housing, welfare and social services, and that these rights have not been improved from the last report in 2003. APTN also addresses the problems with land, in regards to free passage of First Nations people that live in border communities (namely the Mohawks of Akwesasne) and the land lost by oil companies taking over land for drilling interests.
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Walks and Bourne discuss the growing trend of ghettos forming in some of Canada’s largest cities. They looked at data from 1991 and 2001 and used census data about all minority groups in Canada. They concluded with there are more Aboriginal people moving to urban areas, but in general there is no formation of ghettos in our cities. Although in our four largest cities (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Winnipeg) the rates of spatial polarization for Aboriginal people and other people in minority groups is higher than the largest cities of Britain and Australia. They also conclude that a relationship of low income associated with higher levels of minority concentration is found in Canadian cities with Aboriginal populations being one of the minority groups that show the strongest association.--This Maclean’s article discusses how Aboriginal children are considered second-class children. The author discusses how the unequal funding and the challenges that Aboriginal children face in their communities. The article is based on the story of Mike McKenzie which tells a lot of the troubles he had faced in his community and that he realized that he was not alone, that they troubles were also faced by other Aboriginal youth throughout the country.
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--Joan Kendall discusses the disadvantages that the Aboriginal peoples of Canada face compared to the advantages that non-Aboriginal people have in their lives. The main focus is on social and economic factors that lead to the disadvantages for Aboriginal people. Aboriginal people suffer from higher unemployment, around 25%, and from underdevelopment. Both of these are caused by similar factors of loss of land, cultural genocide, and lack of education. Kendall also gives guidelines as to how to improve Aboriginal socioeconomic conditions through improving access to capital, resources, and job training.
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