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.
The long-discussed Nunavut devolution was suddenly finalized. What can this devolution mean for Nunaviummiut?
How can Bill C-53 come to undermine Anishinaabe rights in Ontario?
Bill C-29 holds the potential to fulfill the TRC’s Call to Action to establish a National Council for Reconciliation. But will this Council have the tools necessary to hold the government — and Canadians — accountable?
Among the more rarely discussed Calls to Action are 93 and 94, relating to Newcomers to Canada. While there has been some movement to address these Calls, the citizenship education for new Canadians remains deeply colonial.
In this brief, Riley Yesno examines the 2023 federal budget and how it measures up to Indigenous demands.
Based in the Faculty of Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University.