Aboriginal Affairs moves to limit child-welfare obligations despite TRC recommendations
Aboriginal Affairs seen as trying to protect itself from expected human rights ruling
Child Welfare
Child welfare system continuing assimilation begun by Indian residential schools: TRC
APTN National News As Ottawa began shutting down its Indian residential school systems, the rate…
Read the 94 Calls to Action here
Legacy Child Welfare 1. We call upon the federal, provincial, territorial and Aboriginal governments to…
Canada guilty of cultural genocide against Indigenous peoples: TRC
The TRC builds a case that leads it to conclude Canada committed cultural genocide
Valcourt unsure about details when questioned by MPs on First Nations children, youth
NDP MP calls Valcourt a ‘clown’
Manitoba child welfare system apprehended over 300 babies in one year: documents
Manitoba apprehended a baby a day
Winnipeg girl assaulted while in care of province taken off life-support, social media reports say.
It is unclear how much longer she will be able to survive.
Mi’kmaw agency isn’t doing enough to place children with families: Critics
Trina Roache APTN National News Critics say the Mi’kmaw child welfare agency in Nova Scotia…
Mi’kmaq father says child welfare agency just a modern residential school
Trina Roache APTN National News A Mi’kmaq father in Nova Scotia who battled to get…