‘It’s bulls–t’: families react to coroner’s report into 8 dead First Nations children
(Kanina Sue Turtle, middle, with father Clarence Suggashie and mother Barbara Suggashie visiting Poplar Hill…
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Child welfare agency suspected First Nations girls were planning suicides
“She described it. She would say, ‘We agreed to. We promised each other.”
Ontario coroner finds ‘potential’ crime in review of foster care deaths
An investigation into the deaths of children living in residential care, including seven Indigenous children, has found potential criminality.
How the system failed Amy Owen
Amy Owen had been sent to hospital seven times for suicidal ideation and self-harming in the six months before she took her own life in an Ottawa group home last April.
Mandatory inquests in child welfare deaths? Province appears to be sticking to status quo
(The arson unit continues to investigate a fire that killed Courtney Scott, 16, April 21…
NAN wants Keeash’s death treated as a homicide – but police say not yet
APTN National News Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) is calling on the Thunder Bay police to…
Ontario’s child advocate calls out Premier over inaction to protect First Nations children in care
Ontario’s advocate for children and youth is calling out Premier Kathleen Wynne for not doing enough to protect children in care after 17-year-old Tammy Keeash was found dead in a Thunder Bay waterway Sunday.
Another First Nations girl dies while in care, this time in Thunder Bay
Willow Fiddler APTN National News A 17-year-old First Nations girl found dead in a Thunder…
Child welfare agency ‘questions’ how Amy Owen died in Ottawa group home
Kenneth Jackson APTN National News The Indigenous child welfare agency that placed Amy Owen in…