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Indigenous Leading child advocate Cindy Blackstock is recommending against a 10-year, $47.8-billion proposal to reform the First Nations child and family services, as chiefs from across Canada gather in Calgary to vote on it. Child advocate Cindy Blackstock concerned deal on ‘long-term’ reform lasts 9 years Brett Forester · CBCContinue Reading

Indigenous Canada is stressing the “unwavering” but “political” nature of the government’s commitment to providing First Nations with clean water, as it outlines a defence against a Manitoba band’s national class-action lawsuit. Federal government emphasizes its discretion over funding decisions in Shamattawa class action defence Brett Forester · CBC NewsContinue Reading

Indigenous Federal lawyers are expected to argue in Federal Court this week that the government has no legal duty to provide First Nations with clean water, even if Liberal ministers suggest otherwise at news conferences, in response to a national class-action lawsuit launched by a northern Manitoba First Nation. HearingContinue Reading

Indigenous Giganawenimaanaanig, Manitoba’s MMIWG2S+ implementation committee, will lead the work on the province’s Red Dress Alert system. House of Commons committee report says federal government needs to speed up project Savannah Ridley · CBC News · Posted: Oct 04, 2024 6:55 PM EDT | Last Updated: October 4 A redContinue Reading

Indigenous The minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations doesn’t think the end of the Liberal-NDP alliance will make for a feistier atmosphere on Indigenous issues in the House of Commons this fall. ‘I like to think that reconciliation is a non-partisan issue,’ says Gary Anandasangaree. NDP critic says support agreement was ‘notContinue Reading

Indigenous Nunavut MP Lori Idlout says police killings of six First Nations people in 11 days should inspire the government to act — and the TRC and MMIWG reports show the way. Government must implement TRC and MMIWG report recommendations, says Lori Idlout A memorial for Hoss Lightning, 15, fromContinue Reading

Indigenous·New Nunavut MP Lori Idlout urged the House of Commons to put politics aside and find immediate policy solutions during an emergency parliamentary debate about six incidents in just two weeks where First Nations people were killed by police. MPs sit until midnight debating recent fatal interactions between First NationsContinue Reading

Indigenous The House of Commons will hold an emergency debate Monday evening after six separate incidents between Aug. 29 and Sept. 8 where First Nations people were killed by police. ‘No more Indigenous children must get bullet wounds instead of help,’ says Nunavut MP NDP MP Lori Idlout rises during Question Period in the House ofContinue Reading

Indigenous The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal gave the federal government and First Nations organizations a blunt, imploring message as the latest hearing in a complex, 17-year-old human rights complaint concluded in Ottawa. Hearing on alleged mishandling of children’s program concludes with imploring speech from chair Brett Forester · CBC NewsContinue Reading