After a year and a half of detailed testimony and tens of thousands of documents, the fate of a discrimination complaint against Canada is now in the hands of the three commissioners charged with making a decsion on the case.
A funding shortfall faced by Aboriginal Affairs on the East Coast put First Nation children at “high” risk of “exposure” to “serious harm,” according to an internal department document that surfaced during a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal hearing wrapping up this week.
Trina Roache APTN National News Documents obtained by APTN National News through the access to…
Three UN rapporteurs investigated allegations the Harper government retaliated against a First Nation children’s advocate for launching a human rights complaints against Ottawa.
Earlier this year Canada’s privacy commissioner ordered the Departments of Justice and Aboriginal Affairs to stop monitoring Cindy Blackstock’s social media sites.
The lawyer for a First Nations children’s advocate plans to ask the Human Rights Tribunal to order the federal government to cease surveillance on his client.
The federal government has been accused of violating the privacy of First Nation child welfare advocate Cindy Blackstock.
APTN National News On a typical humid morning in Ottawa, Cindy Blackstock sits on the…
APTN National News The federal government has been accused of knowingly withholding key pieces of…
