indigenous children

Five years after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission issued its final report, commissioners Murray Sinclair, Wilton Littlechild and Marie Wilson are coming together to voice their concerns about the slow pace of reconciliation in Canada.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh will meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday, November 14, 2019, where he will lay out his priorities in the hopes of using his party's position in a minority Parliament to get policies and laws that reflect New Democrat platform commitments.

First Nations chiefs are expressing outrage and disappointment at the federal government's decision to appeal a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling ordering Ottawa to pay billions of dollars in compensation to First Nations children and their families separated by a chronically underfunded child-welfare system.

Rose Mary Wolfe in Lestock, Saskatchewan. Bella Johnson in Whitefish Lake, Alberta. Jacob Grey in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. James Paul in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia.

Their anonymous deaths will be honoured and their names — hundreds and hundreds of them — finally known.

A Friday, September 6, 2019, ruling by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal about Canada's treatment of Indigenous children demands a full investigation of the federal Indigenous-affairs department, says child-welfare advocate Cindy Blackstock.

The Federal Court has approved a settlement agreement for survivors of so-called Indian day schools.

Indigenous children face the highest rates of poverty in the country, with almost one in every two living in households with low incomes, says a new study that shows little improvement in the situation over the last decade.

The Quebec government launched a wide-ranging independent commission on Thursday, May 30, 2019, to look into youth protection in the province, prompted by the death last month of a seven-year-old girl who had been followed by child services and whose case fell between the cracks.

Lynn Beyak cast herself as a defender of free speech and a victim of political correctness moments before senators voted summarily on Thursday, May 9, 2019, to suspend her without pay from the Senate for refusing to delete derogatory letters about Indigenous people from her website.

The Senate's ethics committee recommended on Tuesday, April 30, 2019, that Sen. Lynn Beyak be suspended without pay over incendiary letters about Indigenous Peoples she posted to her website.

The Senate's ethics officer says Sen. Lynn Beyak violated the upper chamber's conflict-of-interest code by posting racist letters about Indigenous people on her website.

A $200-million component of the settlement for abuses at federally run schools for Indigenous children should help address the long-term pain of male survivors, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett said on Thursday, March 14, 2019, after a regional chief sounded the alarm this week about a lack of supports aimed at Indigenous men and boys.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe apologized to survivors of the '60s Scoop Monday for failing them and leaving them "caught between two worlds."

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is set apologize to survivors of the '60s Scoop at the legislature this morning.