Ontario authorities have kept teen’s suicide letters from her family for 724 days and counting
(Barbara Suggashie, left, and her husband Clarence Suggashie hold the picture of their deceased daughter…
Child Welfare
Lack of cultural supports and prevention services results in high number of kids in care inquiry hears
The commissioners overseeing the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls…
‘If you don’t have water… programs aren’t going to do you a lot of good’ Cindy Blackstock testifies at MMIWG hearings
Cindy Blackstock, the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society…
‘The system just eats up our children’ child welfare at issue during MMIWG hearings in Winnipeg
Child welfare was at the heart of the discussions at the National missing and…
Love and death in child welfare: Kanina Sue Turtle’s last days
Just over a year after Kanina Sue Turtle died by suicide in a Sioux Lookout…
Kanina Sue Turtle’s family sues Tikinagan for $5.9M over her ‘wrongful death’ in foster home
The lawsuit alleges Kanina’s death was preventable and the result of Tikinagan’s “reckless disregard” for her wellbeing.
‘It’s bulls–t’: families react to coroner’s report into 8 dead First Nations children
(Kanina Sue Turtle, middle, with father Clarence Suggashie and mother Barbara Suggashie visiting Poplar Hill…
Ontario, First Nations CFS systems ‘failed’ First Nations kids in care before they died: Report
The deaths of 12 children in Ontario were the result of systems failing repeatedly to…
‘There’s no guarantee,’ First Nations advocate skeptical of new recommendations on child welfare system
The First Nations family advocate of Manitoba isn’t convinced a new report recommending changes…
