by fnlcchildrenandfamilies | Jun 27, 2021 | Recent News
More Indigenous family separations now than during residential schools, advocate says Global News – More First Nations families are being separated now than during the years of residential schools — and some are still dying in government care as Indigenous...
by fnlcchildrenandfamilies | Jun 18, 2021 | Recent News
Photo credit: APTN Elder says Justice Department wants ‘to destroy the Aboriginal people’ as child welfare court fight concludes APTN – A First Nations Elder slammed one of the Canadian government’s top lawyers as a week-long court battle over child welfare and...
by fnlcchildrenandfamilies | Jun 17, 2021 | Recent News
Photo credit: APTN ‘Racist and colonial’: Canada uses Indian Act to fight tribunal order expanding Jordan’s Principle First Nations organizations criticized the Canadian government in Federal Court on Thursday for relying on the Indian Act in a bid to overturn a...
by fnlcchildrenandfamilies | Jun 13, 2021 | Recent News
Photo credit: The Canadian Press Indigenous child welfare battle heads to federal court despite calls to drop cases Ottawa’s controversial legal challenge of a pair of rulings involving First Nations children torn from their families by a chronically underfunded...
by fnlcchildrenandfamilies | Jun 12, 2021 | Recent News
Photo credit: The Canadian Press Indigenous leaders, foster kids decry child welfare system As stories of the horrors of residential schools circulate after the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation announced it had located what are believed to be the remains of 215...
by fnlcchildrenandfamilies | Dec 8, 2020 | Recent News
Office of the Representative for Children and Youth | Photo credit: Office of the Representative for Children and Youth Indigenous children in B.C. have twice the rate of injuries compared to other kids in care, report finds A new report by B.C.’s representative...
