Couple’s bid to get back infant son apprehended after birth alert has been delayed
A couple hoping a week-long trial would end their bitter battle with a Manitoba child…
Child Welfare
‘Both ambitious and reasonable’: Chiefs lay out priorities for work on Viens commission’s calls to action
Leaders of various Indigenous organizations and representatives of the Quebec government convened at the Delta…
‘Cynical ploy’: Trudeau government flip-flops, now plans to fight child welfare class-action
“They were trying to manipulate the Federal Court into thinking that maybe there was another process that they could go to”
Human rights case to compensate First Nations kids extended to late February
A hearing scheduled for this week at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to work out…
Atikamekw families in Quebec still haunted by dozens of stories of ‘ghost babies’
In Quebec, they’re called “Bebes Fantomes,” or ghost babies – dozens of Indigenous infants who…
‘We’re doing something really wrong:’ Advocates react to rising rates of Indigenous people in Canada’s prisons
Jamie Pashagumskum APTN News Indigenous women’s organizations are calling the results of a recent report…
‘Child welfare to prison pipeline’ feeding rising Indigenous incarceration rates
Renu Mandhane has visited Ontario’s provincial jails in northern Ontario where inmates largely identity as…
Family of Ojibway woman concerned police didn’t thoroughly investigate her death
Despite Vanderwal’s struggles the family says she was always optimistic and tried to provide a better life for her two-year-old daughter.
Anishinabek Nation looks forward to ‘history-making’ self-government agreement vote
The day started with a drum song by the youth – though not a single…
