Land and Jail: Ipperwash, Official Racism and the Future of Ontario – Kim Petersen
January 5, 2009, 9:19 pm
Filed under: "canada", Indigenous | Tags: Aboriginal, Bay of Quinte, CN rail blockade, Dalton McGuinty, Dudley George, First Nations, Imperialism, Indigenous, Ipperwash, Ipperwash Report, Julian Fantino, Land Rights, Michael Bryant, Mike Harris, Mohawk, Oka, Ontario Provincial Police, OPP Commissioner, Peter Rosenthal, Racism, Royal Commission on Indigenous Peoples, Self-Determination, Settler-Colony, Shawn Brant, Sidney Linden, Stony Point First Nation, Tyendinaga, War Measures Act, White Supremacy
Filed under: "canada", Indigenous | Tags: Aboriginal, Bay of Quinte, CN rail blockade, Dalton McGuinty, Dudley George, First Nations, Imperialism, Indigenous, Ipperwash, Ipperwash Report, Julian Fantino, Land Rights, Michael Bryant, Mike Harris, Mohawk, Oka, Ontario Provincial Police, OPP Commissioner, Peter Rosenthal, Racism, Royal Commission on Indigenous Peoples, Self-Determination, Settler-Colony, Shawn Brant, Sidney Linden, Stony Point First Nation, Tyendinaga, War Measures Act, White Supremacy
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(Dated Piece) 23 September 2008
Source: The Dominion
On May 31, 2007, nearly 12 years after Dudley George was shot by an Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officer, Sidney Linden released the four-volume Ipperwash Report.
In his remarks when he released the report, Linden, the commissioner of the Ipperwash Inquiry, noted that George was the “First aboriginal person to be killed in a land-rights dispute in Canada since the 19th century,” and stated: “If the governments of Ontario and Canada want to avoid future confrontations, they will have to Continue reading
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