How to really help Canada’s Indigenous peoples in a time of crisis: Ken Coates for Inside Policy
This can't be business as usual for funding Indigenous communities, writes Ken Coates. By Ken Coates, March 30, 2020 It is axiomatic that...
Coronavirus crisis poses challenge to Indigenous communities: Ken Coates in Inside Policy
Given the ongoing coronavirus, it is vital, in this instance, that the country work with Indigenous communities to ensure they are protected and...
Pipeline Dispute: Delicate Decisions Ahead, with Much at Stake: Ken Coates in The Epoch Times
There is an urgent need for decisive government action, undertaken with strong Indigenous community support, and with careful consideration for national unity. More...
Ep. 43 – Putting the Rail Blockades and Teck Frontier in Context with Ken Coates and Brett Byers
In the latest episode of Pod Bless Canada, MLI Munk Senior Fellow Ken Coates comments on the ongoing protests and rail disruptions caused...
Don’t confuse support for the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs with the spirit of Idle No More: Ken Coates in The Globe and Mail
Unlike the Idle No More Protests, these protests around Coastal GasLink threaten to broadly subsume Indigenous rights in a campaign against Canadian oil...
Understanding UNDRIP as a call-to-action, not a plan: Ken Coates for Inside Policy
Relations between the Government of Canada and Indigenous peoples work best when good faith negotiations are used to resolve outstanding issues, writes Ken...
How a 20-year-old fishery ruling has redefined First Nations relations in the Maritimes: John Paul and Ken Coates in the Globe and Mail
Few in 1999 anticipated the impact of the Marshall ruling. Today, relations with non-Indigenous communities are stronger and more mutually beneficial, write John Paul...
The Marshall Decision and The Impact of Two Decades of Commercial Re-Empowerment: New MLI Report
OTTAWA, ON (October 24, 2019): In 1999, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in the case brought forward by Donald Marshall Jr., finding...
Quiet Progress on Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples: Ken Coates for Inside Policy
Settlements demonstrate that the Canadian legal and political process can work for Indigenous people, writes Ken Coates. By Ken Coates, September 6, 2019...
Removing sexism in Indian Act a work in progress: Ken Coates in the Toronto Star
Moving towards re-empowerment is far from easy. But justice and fairness are rarely achieved without hard work and sustained effort, writes Ken Coates....
