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Chartered Fight

When provinces and the bench butt heads

Jeffrey Simpson

In Little Jamaica

Stories from a changing neighbourhood

Zuri H. Scrivens

The Devil Is in the Details

Canada’s legalization of marijuana raises a host of policy and health questions

Andrew Potter and James McIntosh
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Tony Penikett

Tony Penikett was the 2013 Fulbright Arctic Scholar at the Senator Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author of Reconciliation: First Nations Treaty Making (Douglas and McIntyre, 2006).

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Paper Promises

By avoiding treaty obligations, Canada undermines its own legal basis July–August 2014
The Government of Canada is not keeping all of the promises it made to aboriginal peoples in 24 “modern” treaties, mostly in the North, negotiated over the last 40 years, ratified by aboriginal peoples and Parliament, and guaranteed by the Constitution of Canada. The Supreme Court of Canada says treaties should “reconcile” aboriginal and non-aboriginal interests, and that the “honour of the Crown” depends upon treaty promises being…

One City, Two Nations

How the rich and the poor are faring in a country that says it prizes equality December 2006
On Beatty Street, Big Ugly, a monster condominium, steals the sunlight and privacy its neighbours purchased only a year or two before, and entrepreneurs erect metal fences to keep the homeless from camping in their doorways. This is Crosstown, the eye of Vancouver’s storm of inequality. Here, my front door opens onto boxy office towers and cloned…