Current Problems: Justice (25-42)
Exploring Theme: "Systemic Racism"
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November 1, 2024
New registry seeks to determine the national scope of forced sterilization of Indigenous people
Survivors Circle for Reproductive Justice hopes to of chronicle the history of First Nation, Inuit and Metis women and girls being forcefully sterilized and getting a better idea of how many people it affected. Toronto Star: newly-formed group is launching a national registry of Indigenous Peoples who were forced or coerced into sterilization, and is...
November 1, 2024
Exoneree supports miscarriage of justice law for ‘other innocent people across Canada’
New wrongful conviction process would rely on commission instead of minister Clarence Woodhouse (right) speaks with Sen. Kim Pate in Ottawa on Oct. 24 as Brian Anderson looks on. Photo: Mark Blackburn/APTN News APTN News: Clarence Woodhouse was barely an adult when homicide detectives accused him of killing a man in 1973. The false confession...
October 15, 2024
Heiltsuk chief blasts Canada’s Indian status policy in UN speech
Chief Marilyn Slett calls for changes to second generation cut-off in address to discrimination committee CBC Indigenous: When Heiltsuk Elected Chief Marilyn Slett spoke at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on Monday she wore an apron her grandmother had gifted to her, a button blanket and a cedar headpiece. The regalia, she said, gave her...
June 13, 2024
Why are Indigenous people over-incarcerated in Canada?
On TVO Today’s “NDN POV,” Indigenous experts discuss the causes of the problem — and what can be done to make change Written by Chris Beaver Indigenous people represent just 5 per cent of Canada’s population, yet 32 per cent of those incarcerated in federal prisons are Indigenous. (Jasmine El Kurd) NationTalk: TVO – Indigenous people...
June 11, 2024
Human rights tribunal to hear expert opinion on Two-Spirit Indigenous prison case
Canadian Human Rights Tribunal Hearing continues for Nicholas Dinardo APTN News: The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, or CHRT, is hearing expert testimony in the case of Nicholas Dinardo, a member of Piapot First Nation has filed a complaint against Correctional Service Canada (CSC). Dinardo, who uses the pronouns they/them, is Two-Spirit. The complaint began on...
June 6, 2024
Tory MP says he misspoke after NDP MP accuses him of making anti-Indigenous comment
The comments were related to James Smith Cree Nation killer’s background CBC News: The Canadian Press – A Conservative MP apologized in the House of Commons on Thursday after an Indigenous colleague from across the political aisle called him out for linking an offender’s criminal record to his race. Brad Redekopp says he misspoke earlier...
April 25, 2024
Secwépemc family launches human rights complaint against Correctional Service Canada
APTN News: The family of Norman LaRue, a member of Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc who is currently serving a life sentence in British Columbia, is speaking out about alleged discrimination from Correctional Service Canada (CSC) — but says the complaint process is too “manipulated” by the federal authority. In December 2022, Jenni LaRue, who is from...
November 13, 2023
Disturbing reality about our prisons
“Life, on the instalment plan.” Toronto Star: That’s the way some Indigenous inmates characterize their prison sentences. They believe they’ll be released, but they also expect to be back — again and again, for the rest of their lives. And all too often, their expectations are fulfilled. Something is therefore very wrong with our prison...
November 7, 2023
Feds say Indigenous staff have no right to sue over alleged racism, toxicity at oil and gas agency
Internal mechanisms ‘are the preferable procedure’: Indigenous Services Canada CBC Indigenous: The Canadian government says Indigenous staff have no right to sue over alleged racial discrimination, chronic toxicity and systemic bullying, harassment and intimidation at a federal on-reserve oil and gas agency in Alberta. Two Blackfoot women have launched a proposed class-action lawsuit against Indian...
October 19, 2023
Death of Tyrone Blind triggers concerns over mental health support in prisons
By Danielle Paradis | Chris Stewart APTN News: The family of Tyrone Blind, a man who died by suicide in a federal prison in Edmonton, says more needs to be done to provide mental health services in Canada’s penitentiaries. Blind, 31, a First Nations man from Saskatchewan, died in the Edmonton Institution on Feb. 1, 2018, according to the...
October 6, 2023
People accused of killing Indigenous women less likely to be charged with first-degree murder: study
Several factors from funding to distrust of colonial systems may contribute to the sentencing decisions APTN News: A report from Statistics Canada shows that there’s a disparity in the way homicide cases involving Indigenous women and girls are handled in the Canadian legal system. Data between 2009 and 2021 indicated that first-degree murder charges, the...
September 19, 2023
Barbara Kentner has been failed again, says family after Brayden Bushby gets day parole in trailer-hitch death
First Nation victim’s family says they weren’t told man convicted in her Thunder Bay death was up for parole WARNING: This story contains disturbing details of violence against Indigenous women. CBC Indigenous: Melissa Kentner is angry. The man convicted of manslaughter in the death of her sister, Barbara Kentner, has been released from prison on day...
July 20, 2023
Indigenous people 17.7% more likely to be incarcerated in Sask.
Non-Indigenous people charged with crimes are more likely to receive bail than Indigenous people Jeremy Appel / Local Journalism Initiative Reporter / Alberta Native News Jul 20, 2023 10:00 PM NationTalk: Saskatoon Today: ALBERTA NATIVE NEWS — Saskatchewan has Canada’s highest rate of Indigenous over-representation in provincial custody, with Alberta in second place, according to new data...
May 28, 2023
Isolation cells in women’s prisons used almost exclusively for Indigenous prisoners, panel finds
The Globe and Mail: Isolation cells in federal women’s prisons are being used almost exclusively for Indigenous prisoners, according to statistics collated by a government-appointed panel that show Indigenous peoples are seriously disadvantaged by a prisoner segregation regimen introduced in 2019. The government established Structured Intervention Units (SIUs) after courts in B.C. and Ontario ruled that a...
May 26, 2023
After spending 7 years detained in Turkey, Charman Smith is now home
Carcross/Tagish First Nation citizen Charman Smith denies she had any knowledge of the illegal substance found in her possession. A First Nations woman from Yukon charged with drug trafficking in Turkey has returned home after being detained there for seven years. Charman Smith, a Carcross/Tagish First Nation citizen, was greeted by loved ones at the Whitehorse airport...
April 21, 2023
Report calls on feds to strip $1B from Correctional Service of Canada budget
Prisoner’s Legal Services says money should be shifted towards community healing. APTN: A prisoner advocacy organization in British Columbia says the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) should have a third of its budget stripped away and that money should be diverted towards Indigenous governments and organizations. In its report, Decarceration through Self-Determination, Prisoner’s Legal Services argues...
February 13, 2023
‘These are real people’: NDP MP slams Correctional Service Canada over systemic racism
Canada’s National Observer: On Thursday, the NDP MP for Edmonton Griesbach spoke at a public accounts committee meeting after the release of an auditor general’s report on systemic barriers facing prisoners in federal jails. “(Correctional Service Canada) acknowledged in November 2020 that systemic racism is present in the correctional system; it’s long overdue that CSC remove the...
December 6, 2022
Race and Gender Discrimination Fuel Violence against Indigenous Women
NationTalk: Thunder Bay, ON – The National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women (White Ribbon Day) is a Canadian movement of men and boys working to end violence against women and girls, promote gender equity, healthy relationships and a new vision of masculinity. Indigenous women have the right to a future free from...
December 5, 2022
Native women’s association calls out Canada for doing little to stop genocide following killing of four women in Winnipeg
Canada’s National Observer: The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) is not mincing words following the killing of four Indigenous women in Winnipeg at the hands of one man. “Let’s be clear, these crimes are part of the genocide that was declared in 2019 by the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and...
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