Current Problems: Justice (25-42)
Exploring Theme: "Legislative and Institutional Issues"
Updates on this page: 7
(Filtered by Stakeholder "British Columbia")
October 17, 2024
How a resolution at the B.C. Law Society became a debate about residential school denialism
Proposed wording change attempted to ‘turn down the volume on [the] truth,’ one lawyer said CBC Indigenous: A recent request to change the wording in a mandatory Indigenous intercultural course for lawyers in British Columbia led to a debate over whether the changes amounted to residential school denialism. Victoria-based criminal defence lawyer Jim Heller submitted a resolution to...
August 8, 2024
Inquest jury urges RCMP to review detention policies after Secwe̓pemc man died in custody
Province has already said it has ‘no plans’ for a sobering centre in Kamloops, one of several recommendations to make the system safer. Content warning: This story includes detailed description of a death in police custody. Please look after your spirit and read with care. APTN News: IndigiNews – Regina Basil always did everything she...
January 25, 2024
Repurpose youth justice resources to better support young people, Rep says
NationTalk: VICTORIA – A dramatic drop in the number of youth committing crimes and being sentenced to custody over the last 20 years has resulted in a gross under-utilization of scarce resources at the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD), according to a new report released today by Representative for Children and Youth (RCY)...
May 24, 2023
B.C. researcher starts project to document Indigenous deaths in police custody
First Nations and advocates echo calls for more transparency into in-custody deaths CBC News: An independent researcher is calling for greater transparency around deaths in police custody in B.C., saying they disproportionately affect Indigenous people. Leonard Cler-Cunningham, a researcher who has documented the deaths of Indigenous people in custody for decades and co-authored research into violence against sex workers in Vancouver,...
February 9, 2023
PHSA did not consistently provide access to mental health, substance use services for Indigenous people in B.C. correctional centres
NationTalk: VICTORIA –Indigenous men and women needing mental health and substance use services while in B.C. correctional centres were not consistently provided access to supports from the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA), according to an audit by the Office of the Auditor General. The PHSA – responsible for health care in corrections since 2017 –...
June 3, 2022
First Nations Leadership Council troubled by lack of progress on implementing the MMIWG Calls to Justice
NationTalk: (Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh)/Vancouver, B.C.) – On the third anniversary of the release of the National Inquiry’s Final Report and Calls for Justice, the First Nations Leadership Council (FNLC) is deeply troubled by the lack of progress to implement the Calls for Justice. Despite the finding of genocide made by the...
November 12, 2020
Federal, Provincial, Territory Ministers responsible for human rights
NationTalk – 24 civil society groups attending the third ever meeting of Federal, Provincial, Territory Ministers responsible for human rights “condemned the obstructive attitude of some governments” in advancing international human rights obligations. Groups had pressed governments to commit to nation-wide law reform that will legally require governments to adopt a collaborative, accountable, consistent, transparent,...
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