United States at the 2022 World Games

• There will be many meaningful conversations about ways we can each engage with and support reconciliation.
• However, one issue that doesn’t get enough attention is how transportation continues to be a serious challenge for Indigenous communities.
• This is concerning as it undermines our pursuit of true equity for all and runs the risk of misallocating public funds.

The roots of transportation injustice

• Though each jurisdiction in Canada has its own settler-colonial origin story, the roots of transportation within this are inseparable.
• This was a dark period of extreme poverty and housing insecurity, the impacts of which continue to marginalize and harm Métis people today.
• Under this system, police were authorized to arrest and imprison Indigenous people who were found off-reserve without a pass.

Lack of investment

• They impact the ability for Indigenous communities to respond to emergencies and climate disasters, complicate the unity of Indigenous families and more.
• Some of these impacts may be more acute in rural, remote or isolated communities, but local governments lack an understanding of how urban Indigenous communities experience transportation and mobility.

Anti-Indigenous racism

• Indigenous communities experience systemic racism in policing, with disproportionate amounts of ticketing and overrepresentation in arrests, with rates as high as 10 times that of white people in some areas.
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  How colonial racism fuels Saskatchewan's criminalization of Indigenous men

  The impacts of colonization are gendered, as evidenced by the disturbing rate of violence against Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit, transgender and gender-diverse people.

• Land dispossession and a lack of adequate housing and transportation options also enable disproportionate rates of human trafficking of Indigenous women and girls.

Right to security

• Many of the factors underpinning these issues violate the principles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), including the right to a life free from discrimination; to life, physical and mental integrity, liberty and security of person; and the right to improve economic and social conditions.
• It’s time for planning professionals, municipalities and transport agencies to recognize that transportation is a reconciliation imperative too.
• There are things we can do to embed reconciliation in our work more meaningfully: Be diligent about the truth.
• Such actions are uncovering the ways municipal institutions and structures have dispossessed and violated Indigenous Peoples, and illuminating the path forward.

• SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Universal Music Group (UMG), the world leader in music-based entertainment, through its Task Force for Meaningful Change (TFMC), is working to widen the pipeline of Black medical practitioners through support to the HBCU medical schools at Howard University College of Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Meharry Medical College and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science.
• Donations will provide over 50 students with scholarships across the four medical campuses that will be granted this year.
• By investing in HBCU Medical Schools, TFMC helps to ensure the cultural competency and literacy needed to improve patient access, care, and outcomes.
• The Universal Music Group Medical Scholarship will help ease the financial burden for deserving students."

• Key Industry Insights & Findings from the report:
  By expression system, the prokaryotic segment accounted for the largest share in 2022.
• Read 150 page market research report, " Protein Expression Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Expression System (Prokaryotic, Mammalian Cell), By Product (Reagents, Competent Cells), By Application (Therapeutic, Industrial), By End-use, And Segment Forecasts, 2023 - 2030 ", published by Grand View Research.
• An increase in R&D investments by the players is estimated to have a considerable impact on the usage of protein expression.
• Other determinants such as rapid acceleration in the demand for protein therapeutics and government investment in the applications of the protein expression industry are also supporting the market growth.

• The U.S. Department of State announced the selection of Dr. Shannon Lewis of Texas Online Preparatory School (TOPS) for a three-month English Language Specialist project focusing on curriculum, teaching and assessment in Chile in cooperation with the Chilean Ministry of Education.
• Lewis is part of a select group, as her project is one of approximately 240 that the English Language Specialist Program supports each year.
• Through the English Language Specialist Project, Dr. Lewis will be designing, developing, and leading a trainer-of-trainers program and direct professional development for networks of K-12 English teachers in Chile.
• For further information about the English Language Specialist Program or the U.S. Department of State, visit elprograms.org/specialist .