Last week the Federal Government released the 2024-2025 budget, with new funding allocations for Indigenous communities. While these allocations are significant and there are even new policy approaches to be found in the budget, chronic shortfalls and the historically paternalistic Crown-Indigenous financial relationship remain.
Federal Budget 2024:
An Indigenous Accounting Read More »
In this brief, Riley Yesno examines the 2023 federal budget and how it measures up to Indigenous demands.
Budget 2023: A Profound Failure to Meet Indigenous Demands Read More »
THE CONSENSUS ANALYSIS of Budget 2022 seems to revolve around the term “centrist.” Mainstream Canadian media has emphasized the Trudeau Liberals’ plans to lower the national deficit while highlighting investments in policy areas like housing and dental care. But centrist can also be a euphemism for big cuts. While there are investments in areas meant to
Balancing the Budget at Indigenous Peoples Expense Read More »
While the Federal 2021 budget has boasted of increased investment in Indigenous communities, Riley Yesno argues that it falls short of what is neccesary to transform systems of inequity and fulfill commitments to Indigenous communities.
Historic and Underwhelming: An Indigenous Analysis of Budget 2021 Read More »
Based in the Faculty of Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University.