Film looks at connections between child welfare and residential schools
Tamara Pimentel APTN National news Several Indigenous youth have been featured in a new film….
Child Welfare
Aboriginal child welfare agency workers rally for better pay, fewer cases
Tina House APTN National News A rally was held over the weekend at the constituency office…
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.
Ottawa gives Manitoba chiefs money to study reforming child welfare system
Brittany Hobson APTN National News Canada’s indigenous affairs minister says child welfare needs to be…
Government tells human rights tribunal that is has complied with ruling to stop discriminating against First Nation children
Annette Francis APTN National News The federal government told the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal that…
N2N: Indigenous Affairs Minister Bennett on Budget 2017
Nation to Nation Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett sits down for an interview with Nation…
Troubled Manitoba FN child welfare agency enters into co-management agreement
Jorge Barrera APTN National News A Manitoba child welfare agency plunged into turmoil after the…
Federal government defends itself at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal
Annette Francis APTN National News Parties at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal are asking the…
Human rights hearing on Ottawa’s First Nation child welfare failures begins
Three days of hearings into Ottawas failure to comply with an order from the Canadian human rights tribunal is underway.