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FAQ’s about the Pollution Notification Map and Data

This factsheet provides a series of frequently asked questions about Pollution Notification Map, offering important contextual and explanatory information about notifications, pollution incidents, and the map data. The map is built out of industry-provided notifications about pollution incidents in Chemical Valley that were collected by Aamjiwnaang community members from 2013-2023. The map, developed by the Technoscience …

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Recommendations from Data Colonialism in Canada’s Chemical Valley

This factsheet outlines three categories of recommendations: Harm-Reducing Recommendations for Industry; Recommendations for the Federal and Provincial Governments, and Recommendations for the Bluewater Association for Safety, Environment, and Sustainability (BASES). The factsheet is connected to the Yellowhead Institute Special Report, Data Colonialism in Canada’s Chemical Valley: Aamjiwnaang First Nation and the Failure of the Pollution …

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Executive Summary | Calls to Action Accountability: A 2021 Status Update on Reconciliation

In this year’s Calls to Action Accountability Special Report, Eva Jewell and Ian Mosby assess where Canada stands on ‘reconciliation’. In 2021, only three calls to action were completed; 83 Calls to Action remain unfulfilled. This executive summary of the report provides an overview of  the progress that has been made, what the barriers preventing …

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Executive Summary | Cash Back: A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper Report

Cash Back is about the value of Indigenous lands. Picking up from Land Back, the first Red Paper by Yellowhead about the project of land reclamation, this report looks at how the dispossession of Indigenous lands created a dependency on the state due to the loss of economic livelihood. Cash Back is about restitution from the perspective of stolen wealth. This …

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10 Ways to Get Cash Back

What could reparations addressing the colonial fiscal relationship between Canada and First Nations look like? Here we share the 10 ways to get Cash Back, developed through a lens of Indigenous economic restoration. This resource comes from Part Three of the Yellowhead Institute Red Paper report, Cash Back. Picking up from Land Back, the first Red Paper …

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