‘Get out there and start taking land back:’ By sacred fire artist Isaac Murdoch issues call to action
(Isaac Murdoch sitting by a fire at Queen’s Park in Toronto issuing his call for…
Child Welfare
Fast begins at Manitoba legislature over child welfare
A group of women in Manitoba are going without food and water to call attention to the province’s child welfare system.
Crucial detail left out of Ontario’s new child welfare legislation
Province require societies to collect race-based data but not actually submit the data.
National MMIWG inquiry ‘speeding towards failure,’ says latest lawyer to resign
Breen Ouellette is the sixth lawyer to resign from the inquiry.
Ontario still can’t say how many Indigenous kids in care despite new law to track them
The 49 children’s aid societies in Ontario were supposed to start collecting race-based data as of Feb. 5.
Consent: How one mother beat the child welfare system and got her kid back
“Just take away your consent, exert your sovereignty in a matriarchal way.”
Indigenous Affairs improving on Jordan’s Principle, but more work is needed says advocate
Cindy Blackstock, the leading advocate in the fight for First Nations families to receive medical benefits similar to children live off the reserves says she has seen an improvement to how Canada handles Jordan’s Principle cases.
From cannabis to child welfare: Indigenous leaders hold rare special meeting on federal legislation
With several pieces of Indigenous-focused federal legislation in the works, Indigenous leaders and representatives are…
First Nations, Metis CFS agencies sue Manitoba government for withholding $266-million meant for kids in care
First Nations and Metis child and family services were in court Thursday asking a judge to order the Manitoba government to stop its practice of keeping money meant for Indigenous children in care.