Federal government ‘jumped the gun’ by appealing human rights tribunal compensation ruling
Lindsay Richardson and Jamie Pashagumskum APTN News Despite the Liberal government’s promises to make restitution…
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Watch LIVE: Federal government challenges First Nations child welfare compensation order
APTN News The federal court’s judicial review of a ruling from the Canadian Human Rights…
Cree judge appointed to tribunal compensation case for First Nations kids in care
Federal Justice Paul Favel from Poundmaker Cree Nation has been appointed to manage the parties…
‘They just ripped them out of my hands’: A mother shares her experience with the child welfare system on InFocus
On the second edition of a three-part series about child and family services (CFS) on…
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…
Is enough being done to keep First Nations children safe in Thunder Bay?
Willow Fiddler APTN National News Community members in Thunder Bay are asking whether officials are…
Curious case of father in Saskatchewan who had his kids taken, but at the same time, approved to adopt
A father in Saskatchewan wants answers from the province’s ministry of Social Services after it refused to return his two youngest children, even though, he and his spouse have been approved by
the department to provide foster care to other children.
4 girls, 4 suicides, and a desperately broken system
The stories of these four girls, whose identities cannot be revealed to protect the privacy of their families, are detailed in a leaked 2014 Manitoba Children’s Advocate Special Investigation Aggregate Report into the deaths of 14 children aged two months to 17 years.
Discrimination case against Canada now in the hands of Human Rights Tribunal Commissioners
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.