Feds on track to miss Indigenous housing targets, Commons committee warns
Trudeau promised to close infrastructure gap by decade’s end but it won’t happen at the current rate of investment says report
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Former TRC director faces tough task as interlocutor on unmarked graves
Kimberly Murray tells N2N ‘challenges’ faced during Mohawk Institute grounds search will inform work as new independent facilitator
Ottawa appoints special interlocutor to help with investigations of unmarked graves at former residential schools
The new position will not have the power to pursue criminal charges.
3 years after MMIWG report, everyone agrees there’s more work to do
The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) says the federal government has made little progress…
Justice system dispenses only injustice for Indigenous women says Sen. Kim Pate
Liberal government at critical crossroads when it comes to addressing high number of Indigenous women in prison
Woman’s advocacy group requests external review to halt RCMP’s ‘shocking’ misogynistic violence
‘The RCMP have become a national public safety crisis for women both inside and outside the RCMP,’ says co-author Pam Palmater
Liberals ask for patience as Red Dress marches take place across the country
Government to give update on MMIWG national action plan next month.
Feds call UNDRIP an ‘interpretive aid only’ in election delay legal battle for First Nation in Alberta
‘It’s disappointing, on that level, to see kind of an impoverished interpretation of what the new legislation implementing UNDRIP means in practice,’ says lawyer
‘Breeding grounds for predators’: MPs probe links between resource extraction, MMIWG
‘Anytime there are men with money who are transient, you’re going to have sexual exploitation,’ MPs hear
