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This week, the story of a newborn baby removed from her family in Manitoba added to a litany of reports about the over-representation of First Nations children in child welfare care. The number and persistence of these stories lead many to believe this is a problem without a solution. But real answers have been on the books for decades 鈥� governments just need to implement them.
Op-ed by听Cindy Blackstock,听executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada. She is a professor at the School of Social Work at 麻豆传媒网站.
Director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy Chris Ragan sat down with TVO'S听The Agenda with Steve Palkin听to discuss carbon pricing.
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The detection of a signal coming from deep space is definitely something to be excited about 鈥� but it's probably not aliens, warns one of the professors who helped build Canada's CHIME telescope.
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