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Action Travail Des Femmes v. Canadian National Railway Company Supreme Court Of Canada– 1987 ISSUE : SYSTEMIC DISCRIMINATION AGAINST AN IDENTIFIABLE…
Canadian Women’s History
Before 1899: Long before colonization: Aboriginal women had a voice in the decision-making process of their communities. The Iroquois and the…
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
“I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group.”…
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Defining Disability: From a medical model to a social model of disability
The Medical Model Disability results from an individual person’s physicial or mental limitation. Definition of disability is related to biology and…
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Aboriginal Persons and Water Crisis
There are currently 108 Aboriginal communities under boil-water advisories – some for more than a decade. It is unthinkable this situation…
Gender discrimination against Aboriginal Women
In June of 2007 Sharon McIvor of the Lower Nicola Valley First Nation won a historic case in the B.C. Supreme…