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"I want to thank the Coast Salish People for allowing me on their Unceeded Traditional Territory here in Vancity".......
I am from the O'Chiese First Nations in Alberta, KKKanada......that would make me a proud modern "Saulteaux/Cree WARRIOR"....i have the upmost respect for mother earth and its descendents.....we as First Nations people do have an inheritant job whenever we accept this or not......i am challenging for changes for our people and with anyone else that recognizes our plight....i love challenges.....i worked in the oil patch for some time and i was not being recognized for my knowledge.....this really upset me and opened my eyes even more.....in 2005...i than came to Vancity for work at first.....my uncle Frank persuaded me that this avenue was not appealling to my personality....so i applied for further education and my rez back home made history for me and my peoplemy heart goes out for the Elder abuse...the social economic abuse and the lack of disparity shown towards our peeps here on Turtle Islandi am just a visitor here on unceeded territory of the Coast Salish People....i am truely honoured to attend their longhouses and witiness the changes for their people....other First Nations people will follow their examples.......the precedent rulings coming outta this land of the Coast Salish have a hugh impact for the lawmakers....lawyers and other First Nations Bands......i am both excited and honoured to be a part of this history.....just as Crazy Horse did an century ago.....the 7th generation is here and are making the prophecies of our Elders....we will restore Peace and Order......Peace......Jay
July,06,2006
The General Assembly today overwhelmingly backed protections for the human rights of indigenous peoples, adopting a landmark declaration that brought to an end nearly 25 years of contentious negotiations over the rights of native people to protect their lands and resources, and to maintain their unique cultures and traditions.
By a vote of 143 in favour to 4 against (Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States), with 11 abstentions, the Assembly adopted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which sets out the individual and collective rights of the world’s 370 million native peoples, calls for the maintenance and strengthening of their cultural identities, and emphasizes their right to pursue development in keeping with their own needs and aspirations.
A non-binding text, the Declaration states that native peoples have the right “to the recognition, observance and enforcement of treaties†concluded with States or their successors. It also prohibits discrimination against indigenous peoples and promotes their full and effective participation in all matters that concern them.
The Human Rights Council adopted the Declaration in June 2006, over the objections of some Member States with sizeable indigenous populations. The Assembly deferred consideration of the text late last year at the behest of African countries, which raised objections about language on self-determination and the definition of “indigenous†people.
OCTOBER,19,2007
Miloon Kothari, UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, visits Carnegie Community Centre on the corner of Main and East Hastings Streets in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The neighbourhood has been known as Canada's poorest postal code for many years.
One man told Kothari said his sister was killed because of being homeless.
Robert Pickton is currently on trial for the murders of Mona Wilson and five other women, most of whom sold sex on the streets to feed their drug addictions.
In stepping up to the microphone on Tuesday, Jayson Fleury says his sister's death could have been avoided.
"Too many of our people are dying on these streets,'' Fleury said. "Society expects us to clean up your mess. I say this because discrimination is a lack of understanding that takes place when judging other people. And the answers are simple: dialogue, which creates honesty, respect and healing.''
The federal government also said that the cut they made to the GST is helping make homes more affordable.
According to StatsCanada, the median family income in B.C. in 2005, the last year for which figures are available, is $58,500.
A recent report from the Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership, suggested that homelessness costs Canada more than $4.35 billion 2006 GST tax cut and entire environmental plan on climate change.
Kothari said his mission through Canada was to explore housing issues through four lenses: homelessness, indigenous people's housing and land rights, the issue of affordability and land speculation and women's rights with respect to housing and land.
"I think there is a crisis across the world, I don't think Canada is immune from that,'' Kothari said.
He said in many countries, Canada included, more government intervention is needed, including policies governing what he called the ''housing continuum,'' which would allow people to make the transition from shelters to boarding houses to hostels and then finally to their own homes.
The next morning, I read our two daily newspapers, the Vancouver Sun and The Province, and the Globe and Mail, a national daily. Mr. Kothari's visit was not considered newsworthy enough to appear in any of these publications.
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Brother of alleged Pickton victim recalls search for baby sister
By ANDREW HANON, edmonton SUN MEDIA
VANCOUVER -- Anger flares in Jayson Fleury's eyes when he recalls how he was informed that his baby sister's remains had been found on alleged serial killer Robert Pickton's suburban pig farm.
While at work in Edson one day in early 2002, he got a call from a radio reporter asking him how he felt about the news that his sister, 26-year-old Mona Wilson, was among dozens of women who died horribly on the now notorious Port Coquitlam farm.
The jury is expected to begin deliberating this week on the fate of Pickton, who's charged with first-degree murder in the killings of six women all known to frequent Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside. He will be tried on 20 more first-degree murder charges at a later date.
"I was shocked when the reporter called," Fleury told Sun Media today as he warmed himself in a tiny native drop-in centre after being caught in a downpour on East Hastings Street, the Downtown Eastside's main drag. "I felt completely stupid because I had no idea. I had received no official notification."
Fleury, 43, found out later that B.C. authorities had contacted the band office on the family's home reserve, the O'Chiese First Nation near Rocky Mountain House, and asked officials there to track down the family. No one had ever reached him.
It was just one more in a long string of outrages that plagued Fleury's relationship with Wilson, he said.
He harbours bitter resentment toward the foster care system, which he claims kept him in the dark about Wilson's existence. He didn't even know about her until he was in his 30s.
One of five children to Linda Bigjohn, Fleury was raised in foster homes in the Edmonton area, while Wilson, whose father is a member of the Westbank First Nation in B.C.'s Okanagan Valley, ended up in foster care in B.C. by the time she was eight years old.
The first time Fleury met her around 1990, Wilson was already slipping into the dark world of drug addiction on the Downtown Eastside.
By her mid-teens, he said, she was already using heroin.
For the next decade, Fleury would travel back and forth between Alberta and Vancouver to track down Wilson and make sure she was OK.
"I spent a lot of nights going up and down these alleys, looking for her," Fleury said. "It was so difficult, so frustrating to see her like that. But in a way she was one of the lucky ones. Most of the women on these streets have no one. At least she had family that was trying to support her."
There were times when he couldn't track her down, and Fleury ended up at the city morgue looking at dozens of unidentified bodies to make sure she wasn't among them.
Gazing out the storefront window as hollowed-out addicts shuffled past, he said quietly, "so many of our people end up as John Does in the morgue and then get buried in unmarked graves."
Wilson vanished November, 2001, the same year that her mother died tragically in Edmonton. Fleury said their mom was killed on Edmonton's outskirts when a train slammed into her stalled pickup truck.
"Our mom was such a powerful person," he said. "Very strong in spirit. She survived residential school and did the best she could to keep all five of us together."
He was already in foster care, but has heard from his other siblings that when Wilson still lived with her mom, "she was spoiled the most." He added sadly: "I never knew her in the good times, though."
However, Wilson's former foster brother remembers her as a spunky girl with a big heart and a love of laughter.
Greg Garley lived with Wilson on a farm in suburban Surrey until she turned 14.
"I remember her smile," he said. "I remember what a great girl she was." After she left, Garley said she kept in touch with his family, but refused to visit them. He said they had no idea that Wilson had developed a drug addiction.
Edmonton Journal Monday, May 14, 2001 Page: B1 / FRONT Section: City Byline: Florence Loyie, Journal Staff Writer Dateline: Edmonton Source: The Edmonton Journal A woman is dead after a train and car collided in a marked crossing in the city's west end Sunday afternoon. A white Pontiac Grand Am travelling southbound on 215th Street was struck by an eastbound train in a marked crossing at 112th Avenue at about 12:30 p.m. The crushed vehicle ended up on the north side of the tracks about 40 metres east of the crossing. The woman, the lone occupant, was pronounced dead at the scene. Brian Kalin, superintendent of CN's Alberta operations, said the train was travelling at about 80 km/h, and pulling 104 empty sulphur cars. ....We are presently conducting our investigations in terms of exactly what transpired at the scene here. The train's emergency brakes were applied which indicates the crew was aware of something wrong prior to the collision,'' he said. The train's two crew members -- a conductor and engineer -- were not hurt. But they were relieved from duty immediately and given counselling. Kalin said CN is looking into whether the crossing's warning system, which includes arms, lights and bells, was working properly. ....Our initial reports indicate it was, in fact, functioning as designed,'' Kalin said. The train was coming from Vancouver, destined for Edmonton. The train's locomotive came to a stop about 910 metres, or about 25 box-car lengths, down the track. Police Insp. Jim Kennedy said investigators are trying to determine how the woman ended up stopped on the tracks before being struck. ....Whether that was because they didn't see the crossing arms coming down, I don't know. Whether or not she was in the southbound lane, I don't know. That is for the investigators here to determine,'' he said. Police brought in a dog to ensure there wasn't anyone else in the car who might have been thrown from it. The crossing was closed to traffic for more than five hours while police and CN investigators measured skid marks and collected evidence. The woman's body was removed from the vehicle about four hours after the accident.
Signals, gates working at time of fatality Edmonton Journal Thursday, May 17, 2001 Page: A8 Section: Alberta Byline: Journal Staff Dateline: Edmonton Source: The Edmonton Journal Investigators have determined a railway crossing system in the city's west end was working properly during a fatal collision. Sophie Bigjohn, 56, of Rocky Mountain House, was killed when her car was struck by a train at the crossing, at 215th Street and 112th Avenue, just after noon on Sunday. Her Pontiac was crushed and thrown about 40 metres. Bigjohn, the car's lone occupant, died at the scene. ....The gates were working and lights flashing at the time of the accident,'' said CN spokesperson Graham Dallas. He said it's a mystery why the accident happened. City and CN police continue to investigate.
It's official - what we all knew would happen, has happened. The Pickton defence has filed their appeal on the grounds that: the jury should have never heard the tape of what police and prosecutors called Pickton's 'confession,' to an undercover officer and that the judge, Justice Williams, did not give the jury proper instructions or clarify a question that they asked during deliberations.
Pickton's defence team has a new face after Peter Ritchie stepped off the team. The new face is that of Gil McKinnon, a lawyer who apparently knows his way around the appeals system quite well.
What this means is that most likely this trial will not move forward for another year.
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