A lot has happened since June 14, 2021, the last update from Indigenous Watchdog. So far this year, Indigenous Watchdog has documented 362 updates: 171 mostly positive actions by stakeholders across all 94 Calls to Action vs 160 "Current Problems" across those same Calls to Action. What does that mean? 60 of those "Current Problems"... Continue Reading →

On June 30, 2021 the Canadian Historical Association, "which represents 650 professional historians from across the country, including the main experts on the long history of violence and dispossession Indigenous peoples experienced in what is today Canada recognizes that this history fully warrants our use of the word genocide. The recent confirmation of hundreds of... Continue Reading →

Since the publication of the Truth and Reconciliation report 6 years ago, we have learned as a country that we need to learn the real history of Canada. Embracing this truth makes us stronger as a nation, unites Canadian society and teaches our kids that we must always do our best, especially when it’s hard. Her... Continue Reading →

On June 11, 2021, the federal government posted updates to their "Delivering on the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action" website as well as an update delivered on June 7, 2021 using the phrase "Date modified". The problem: Not a single word has changed from the last revision to the site on Sept. 5, 2019!... Continue Reading →

"Seventy-six of the Report's 94 Calls to Action fall under the sole or shared responsibility of the Government of Canada.  At this time, working together with provincial/territorial governments and other key partners, eighty percent of these are completed or well underway". The Honourable Carolyn Bennett, Minister Crown-Indigenous Relations, Dec. 15, 2020 Federal Government = 80% Truth... Continue Reading →

“I call on Canadians – elders and youth, Aboriginal or not – to commit to reconciliation and breaking down the wall of indifference." Honourary Witness to the TRC, the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, former Governor General of Canada Indifference. The official government of Canada website "Delivering on Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action" was... Continue Reading →

Conrad Black's two articles in the National Post: "The truth about truth and reconciliation" (March 21, 2021) and "A serious conversation for a serious country" (April 3, 2021) assert two blatantly false claims about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: "the rampant but fraudulent truism that this country is rotten with 'systemic racism'" "there is no... Continue Reading →

Tom Flanagan and the Fraser Institute released "Promise and Performance: Recent Trends in Government Expenditures on Indigenous Peoples" that rates investments in Indigenous programs as a failure since they have not lifted Indigenous people up from their entrenched position at the bottom of the Canadian economy. Flanagan's entire argument is presented in strictly economic terms... Continue Reading →

STATUS CHANGE Call to Action # 32 "Amend criminal code to depart from mandatory minimum sentences" changed from STALLED to IN PROGRESS Call to Action # 41 "Appoint public inquiry into MMIWG" changed from "STALLED" to "IN PROGRESS" What's Happening with Reconciliation The following table provides a quantitative look into what is happening with reconciliation... Continue Reading →

Are you tired of always reading or hearing negative stories about how Indigenous people are treated in this country: how systemic barriers to Indigenous interactions with social structures are entrenched and continuously reinforced; how the economic pillaging of Indigenous territory continues unabated, and the pattern of Indigenous erasure seems to be repeating itself over and... Continue Reading →