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(Filtered by Indigenous Group "Inuit")
May 7, 2024
Quebec nixes commissioner role for Indigenous children’s well-being
Amendment allows Quebec commissioner to work alongside First Nations, Inuit First Peoples Law Report: CBC News: Quebec will not be appointing an associate commissioner dedicated to the welfare of Indigenous children, after heeding calls to postpone the decision for months. The role would have been created under Bill 37 — an Act Respecting the Commissioner...
March 4, 2024
‘When am I coming home?’: Vulnerable Nunavut kids face loneliness, despair as millions spent sending them south
Global News: Iqaluit, Nunavut — Connie MacIntosh was working as a social service worker in Pond Inlet, a tiny hamlet in Nunavut, when her phone rang. On the line was a representative from a company operating group homes for youth in southern Ontario, more than 3,000 kilometres away. She said the caller had a request: they wanted kids from Nunavut....
February 16, 2024
Deaths of 2 Nunavut care home residents, aged 12 and 19, trigger multiple investigations
Family services minister says officials working to move the rest of the patients out of Naja Isabelle Home CBC Indigenous: Multiple investigations, including one by the RCMP, are underway at the Naja Isabelle group home in Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut, after two young residents died in hospital. In a news release Friday morning, Margaret Nakashuk, Nunavut’s minister of...
January 30, 2024
Critics say Quebec’s child welfare legislation falls far short
Bill C-92 provides rights for Indigenous people to exercise jurisdiction over their own child and family services. Last fall, Quebec introduced its own child welfare legislation – but critics say it falls far short of the federal law....
October 26, 2023
Bill 37: A Bill that Misses the Mark
NationTalk: Wendake — In response to the recommendActions of the report of the Special Commission on the Rights of the Child and Youth Protection, unveiled in 2021, the Quebec government is announcing today a bill aimed at creating the Commissioner for Children’s Welfare and Rights, supported by a d eputy c ommissioner dedicated to the...
June 30, 2023
A Horrific Case Highlights Huge Safety Gaps in BC Foster Care
Two children endured abuse a judge described as ‘torture’ in a Lower Mainland region with abysmally low safety compliance rates. [Editor’s note: This story discusses child abuse and death. It may be triggering to some readers.] The Tyee: A B.C. region where two Indigenous children were horrifically abused in foster care — one of them...
June 28, 2023
Coroner issues wake-up call in report on Inuk teen moved 78 times by the time she died, at 18
Maggie Kimattuuti Padlayat, surrendered at birth, lived with 18 different foster families by the age of 7 CBC News: Before ending her life at 18, Maggie Kimattuuti Padlayat was moved 78 times by Quebec’s youth protection services. The constant moving — living with 18 different foster families by the age of seven — contributed to...
March 15, 2023
Changes needed to cutoff age for Child and Family Services support, Manitoba youth advocacy network says
Too many Manitoba kids aging out of care into homelessness every year, says director CBC News: Every year, hundreds of children in Manitoba age out of the child welfare system, and advocates say too little is being done to offer early transitional support. Now, some want the age cutoff for kids in care scrapped entirely....
June 14, 2022
Anishinabek Nation response to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child report on welfare of Indigenous children
ANISHINABEK NATION HEAD OFFICE (June 14, 2022) – On behalf of the Anishinabek Nation, Grand Council Chief Reg Niganobe and Children’s Commissioner Ogimaa Duke Peltier have issued a statement in response to the recent report released by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child expressing deep concerns about the welfare of Indigenous children...
May 26, 2022
Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs challenge Bill C-92 jurisdiction and provincial amendments to Child and Family Services Act
NationTalk: Treaty One Territory, Manitoba – The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) calls on the provincial government to work with First Nations before any amendment to the Child and Family Services Act (CFS Act) related to First Nations’ jurisdiction. “The AMC has been clear and direct; government officials must support First Nations led jurisdiction over...
April 19, 2022
Indigenous Youth Care in Montreal
NationTalk: Exactly six months after it asked the Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission to launch an inquiry on its own initiative into systemic racism in employment and service delivery at Batshaw Youth and Family Centers, the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal (NWSM) still has not received any response. The silence is treated as...
May 3, 2021
Laurent Commission Final Report
The Special Commission on the Rights of the Child and Youth Protection (Laurent Commission), released their Final Report. The Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador (AFNQL) and the First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commission (FNQLHSSC) would like to thank the commissioners, …for their openness to including a chapter dedicated to First...
February 12, 2020
Laurent Commission Final Report
The Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador (AFNQL) and the First Nations of Quebec and Labrador Health and Social Services Commission (FNQLHSSC) – presented a joint brief to the Laurent Commission (Special Commission on the Rights of Children and Youth Protection) aimed in particular at reaffirming the rights of First Nations to decide on the future...
November 19, 2019
Indigenous Youth Care in Montréal
APTN: Release of “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Child Welfare Services for indigenous clientele living in Montreal” presents a scathing analysis of Indigenous youth care in the Montreal area. Assembled over three years by stakeholders from the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal, Concordia University, Rising Sun Daycare, and the Youth Department of the public...
February 22, 2019
Indigenous concerns around Block Funding for Children and Family Services
The Indigenous Leadership Council – President Dave Chartrand of the Manitoba Metis Federation, Grand Chief Jerry Daniels of the Southern Chiefs’ Organization (SCO) and Grand Chief Garrison Settee of the Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak (MKO) – met yesterday with Minister of Families, Heather Stefanson, to discuss the province’s decision to move to block funding for children and...
February 14, 2019
Government ignores AMC “Bringing our Children Home Act”
First Nation leaders in Manitoba say the provincial government’s announced child welfare reform this week ignores efforts by Indigenous communities that are trying to regain jurisdiction over their own children. “The province of Manitoba continues to ignore the longstanding position and resolutions of the AMC Chiefs-in-Assembly – including the “Bringing our Children Home Act” –...