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The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal will hold three days of hearings into Canada’s non-compliance of a ruling handed down Jan. 26, 2016
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Ottawa continues legal fight against St. Anne’s Indian residential school survivor over suppressed evidence
The survivor, known only as H-15019, wants a new compensation hearing without federal lawyers present because they previously suppressed evidence to discredit the claim.
Residential school survivor raped as child lost claim after Ottawa’s lawyers pulled ‘legalistic’ move
Cases facing similar tactics now put on hold
Ottawa reviewing discovered document that could change Mi’kmaq welfare policy battle
Discovered document could have changed outcome of court challenges
Survivors from electric chair-equipped residential school facing another court fight with Ottawa
Indian residential school survivors who attended an institution that used an electric chair to torture students are returning to court in another effort to force the federal government to release uncensored documents from the investigations and criminal trials of former school staff.
Inuit continue court battle against Harper government over broken ‘promises’
From the first year it came to power, the Harper government has been battling Inuit over allegations it has broken the promises that gave birth to Nunavut.
Document: Ottawa’s funding shortfall put East Coast FN children at ‘high’ risk of ‘serious harm’
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.
Lawyer says Ottawa won't agree to stop spying on First Nations children's advocate
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.
Aboriginal Affairs, Justice Canada gathered personal information on First Nations child advocate: privacy watchdog
The federal Aboriginal Affairs department and Justice Canada gathered personal information about a First Nations children’s advocate who launched a human rights complaint against Ottawa, the privacy watchdog has found.
