From cannabis to child welfare: Indigenous leaders hold rare special meeting on federal legislation
With several pieces of Indigenous-focused federal legislation in the works, Indigenous leaders and representatives are…
Child Welfare
Child and Youth Advocate to review Inuit child welfare in Newfoundland and Labrador
APTN News Newfoundland and Labrador’s Child and Youth Advocate has announced that her office will…
Programs needed for kids ‘aging out’ of child welfare system in NWT says advocate
An advocate for at-risk youth in the Northwest Territories says the government needs to do more than throw money at the problem of kids aging out of the child welfare system.
Indigenous, Black children over-represented in Ontario child welfare: report
Ontario’s chief human rights commissioner is sounding the alarm over the “deeply concerning” over-representation of Indigenous and Black children in the province’s child welfare system, following the findings of a new report.
Former Algonquin foster child relearns lost language, hopes to care for children of his own
APTN News Xavier Moushoom lost count of all the families from his 10 years in…
Ottawa has ‘turned a corner’ in First Nations child welfare: Philpott
Canada’s Indigenous services minister says Ottawa has fully complied with the orders of a 2016…
Data reveals close to 600 suicides in northern Ontario since the mid-1980s
Brian Rae remembers his nephew, Dario Strang, as someone who was smart and did well…
Yukon child advocate reviewing systemic issues plaguing group homes
APTN News Yukon’s group homes will be undergoing a systemic review to determine whether children…
Proposed Manitoba law would keep Indigenous kids in care in their communities
There are about 11,000 children in care in Manitoba and about 90 per cent are Indigenous.