Record number of children died while receiving child services in Alberta according to new report
Critics in Alberta are calling on the government to overhaul its child intervention policy after…
Child Welfare
Murray Sinclair to chair negotiations on federal compensation for First Nations kids
The former chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) will aid talks between the…
Can 5 weeks of talks settle a 14-year battle over child welfare? Here’s what has to happen
Negotiations underway for more than a year when December deadline announced, according to court documents
Ottawa appeals court decision upholding cash for First Nations kids
Government pledges to try and negotiate solution before actively litigating case
Gitxsan community stops B.C. social workers from taking child back into ‘care’
‘We’re sick and tired of generation after generation being lost in the system…’ says Kolin Sutherland-Wilson of the Git’luuhl’um’hetxwit house.
Judge upholds human rights compensation order for First Nations kids
Canada has lost every battle so far in 14-year-old court fight that isn’t over yet
Birth alerts follow you ‘for the rest of your life’ says Indigenous mom who had newborn taken
Eight years after her son was apprehended at a Calgary hospital, this mom says she lives with severe anxiety, nightmares, intense flashbacks and questions about why her family was separated instead of supported.
Final federal leaders debate comes and goes with promises and warnings
Party leaders trade barbs, blast each on reconciliation as federal election enters home stretch
New class action alleges birth alerts are ‘a product of the state’s colonialist and paternalistic attitude’
Filed in B.C.’s Supreme Court, the proposed action marks the first step in a ‘national litigation effort’ representing parents subjected to birth alerts across Canada
