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MEDIA INDIGENA 306

Sucker for Sasquatch / MI 306

ON THIS WEEK'S INDIGENOUS ROUNDTABLE:

On our first MINI INDIGENA of the season, host/producer Rick Harp and MI regular Trina Roache (Rogers Chair in Journalism at the University of King’s College) are joined by special guest Melissa Ridgen (former co-anchor of APTN National News, now a network managing editor at Global News), as they discuss:

• The Siksika First Nation to create reportedly first-ever First Nation bylaw prosecutor's office in Canada Global News

Trina’s re-tweet of the @APTNNews post: “NDP MP Leah Gazan [successfully] reintroduced a motion to recognize what happened in Canada’s residential school system as an act of genocide…” 

• Rick’s re-tweet of the @TorontoStar post: “Loblaw made $1 million per day in ‘excess’ profits in 2022, according to a new report analyzing rising prices in the grocery industry.”

• Why a Northern Manitoba health leader says English language testing a barrier to Indigenous nurses that “smells like white supremacy” Times Colonist

OTHER LINKS REFERENCED / CONSULTED THIS EPISODE:

• Tweet by @SeanCarleton: “...the National Post published an op-ed today... debating the definition of genocide. Here's a thread on how this kind of denialism works”

• Tweet by @theEagleist: “White man injured by use of word genocide”

• Loblaw admits to bread price-fixing scheme spanning more than 14 years Globe and Mail

• Grocery Giants Discussed Fixing More Than Bread Prices, Court Files Suggest The Tyee

• “I'm in need of a food bank. What do I do?” CBC News

• “Applicants” College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba

• “Approved Language Testing” College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba

• “Sample test questions” The International English Language Testing System (IELTS.org)

LISTEN NOW:

https://mediaindigena.libsyn.com/why-mandatory-english-testing-for-some-indigenous-nurses-smells-like-white-supremacy-ep-306 

Comments

Where do I find the info for Discord?

MP, it'd be great to see you share your thoughts on the Discord! Are you signed-up yet?

Rick Harp

Very confused by the intensity of that English test! Im an Anglophone health care worker in Quebec, from another province. All hcws from other provinces need to pass a French language test in order to get a full license, but you have at least a year of working to do the exam, as long as you show you have registered to take it. The degree of difficulty is much, much lower than what was presented on the podcast!


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