Month: May 2024

Sol Mamakwa gave first-ever Indigenous-language speech to Ontario provincial legislature, following rule change

A First Nations lawmaker in Ontario has addressed the province’s legislature in Anishininiimowin, in a “historic” milestone that repudiates a centuries-long colonial “war” on Indigenous languages.

Sol Mamakwa, a New Democratic party member from the community of Kingfisher Lake First Nation, rose on Tuesday to give the province’s first-ever Indigenous language speech in Queen’s Park, telling colleagues the moment left him feeling “thankful and proud”. Continue reading…
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ICYMI: My husband John Adams, emeritus professor of geography at University College London, who has died aged 85, was one of the first academics to rigorously explore the field of risk, bridging the divide between data-driven and psychological approaches. “Risk management – it’s not rocket science,” he would say. “It’s more complicated.”

He produced groundbreaking work on road safety and expanded the concept of ‘risk compensation’ – a theory that suggests people adjust their behaviour in response to perceived levels of risk. Continue reading…
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ICYMI: Foreign ministers confident of agreement to use bank assets as security for Ukraine reconstruction loan

Hopes of a multi-country deal to use $300bn of Russian state assets frozen in the European banking system to support Ukraine have grown after it emerged that G7 ministers were confident of overcoming technical and political obstacles at a meeting in northern Italy on Saturday.

The Canadian finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, said she was optimistic that G7 leaders would reach an agreement, as support coalesced around a plan to use frozen Russian central bank assets as security for a $50bn (£39bn) loan. Continue reading…
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My husband John Adams, emeritus professor of geography at University College London, who has died aged 85, was one of the first academics to rigorously explore the field of risk, bridging the divide between data-driven and psychological approaches. “Risk management – it’s not rocket science,” he would say. “It’s more complicated.”

He produced groundbreaking work on road safety and expanded the concept of ‘risk compensation’ – a theory that suggests people adjust their behaviour in response to perceived levels of risk. Continue reading…
http://dlvr.it/T7RL3J

ICYMI: Federal government to amend Citizenship Act, removing ‘second-generation cut-off’ introduced by Conservative government

Canada plans to restore the right of citizens born abroad to pass their citizenship to children also born outside the country, following a court ruling that a “first-generation limit” in the law was unconstitutional.

The federal government announced legislation to amend the Citizenship Act, removing a “second-generation cut-off” introduced by the previous Conservative government, after an Ontario court ruled in December that the limit was unconstitutional. Continue reading…
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