Specifically, the Act is aimed at raising awareness of wage gaps that affect women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities. [read post]

The recently concluded Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools in Canada, for example, included in its “Calls to Action” a specific recommendation relating to legal education: We call upon law schools in Canada to require all law students to take a course in Aboriginal people and the law, which includes the history and legacy of residential schools, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Treaties and Aboriginal… [read post]