Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continued his campaign to refresh relations with indigenous peoples across the country last week, meeting with Inuit leaders at the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) office in Ottawa.
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“This decision concerns children. More precisely, it is about how the past and current child welfare practices in First Nations communities on reserves, across Canada, have impacted and continue to impact First Nations children, their families and their communities.”
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Six years and more than 6,000 testimonies later, the final report from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada was released to the world, detailing the horrors experienced by Canada’s indigenous peoples within the residential school system.
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National homicide rates released by Statistics Canada last week included unprecedented clarity on data from the Aboriginal population.
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After years of the former federal Conservative government dismissing missing and murdered indigenous women, our country’s national epidemic, as an enforcement issue, there is a groundswell of optimism about the new Liberal prime minister’s pledge to call a national inquiry. The anticipation is palpable and widespread.
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Ontario Regional Chief Isadore Day, of the Serpent River First Nation, says the state of health for First Nations people in Canada is deplorable.
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