Exploring Theme: "Legislative and Institutional Issues"

The territory’s child poverty rate is more than double the national average First Peoples Law Report: CBC News: Eye on the Arctic – Half of children under the age of six who live in Nunavut are living in poverty — the highest rate in the country — according to a new report released Tuesday. The report,...

‘It’s good to have this UN light shown on Canada,’ says Heiltsuk Elected Chief Marilyn Slett  CBC Indigenous: Despite amendments to the Indian Act, gender-based discrimination against First Nations women and girls continues in Canada, according to the conclusions of a United Nations committee. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women issued the findings...

NationTalk: (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil Waututh)/ Vancouver, B.C. – October 31, 2024) Members of the Indian Act Sex Discrimination Working Group (the Working Group)[1] including the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, Ontario Native Women’s Association, the Feminist Alliance for International Action, Quebec Native Women and leading plaintiffs in the court and UN petitions that...