Additional Themes from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action are comprehensive and detailed, focused as they are on what needs to be done to resolve long-standing issues negatively impacting Indigenous lives. Within the Calls to Action are specific areas that are mentioned in various contexts but that need more in-depth coverage.
Select each of the following to find details information of each of the various themes: Current Reality, Background information
Drinking Water Advisories
Current Reality The previous update on Sept. 28, 2024 indicated that 31 First Nations communities still had 33 long-term drinking water advisories (81% completion rate).……
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Environment
Current Reality From the devastating impacts of climate change to the devastation caused by rapacious resource extraction projects on Indigenous territory, the environment suffers the……
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Food Insecurity
Current Reality Food insecurity has reached crisis levels in all four Inuit regions. In one Inuit region, 70% of Inuit adults were found to be……
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Housing
Current Reality April 16, 2024: Budget 2024 invests $918M over 5 years to accelerate work in narrowing First Nations, Inuit, and Métis housing and infrastructure……
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Suicide Prevention
Current Reality “Canada is one of the few developed countries that does not have a national suicide prevention strategy.” Resilience in Life. Executive Summary. January……
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Treaties and Land Claims
Current Reality As the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples affirms in Article 28: Indigenous peoples have the right to redress, by……
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Urban Commitments to Reconciliation
Current Reality The 2021 census counted 1.8 million Indigenous people in Canada or 5.0% of the total population. About half (44%) of the Indigenous population—representing 801,045 First Nations people, Métis……
Read MoreFeatured Updates from “Other Issues”
Treaties and Land Claims
Quebec First Nation says provincial government, Hydro-Quebec left it out of wind projects
A Hydro Quebec truck, in Montreal, on Sept. 1, 2023. CHRISTINNE MUSCHI/THE CANADIAN PRESS The Globe and Mail: A First Nation near Quebec City says……
November 11, 2024
Environment
Groundbreaking Agreement Will Invest in Indigenous Leadership…
NationTalk: Behchokǫ̀, NWT: Representatives of 22 Indigenous Governments, the Government of Canada, the Government of the Northwest Territories, and private donors signed an historic agreement……
November 14, 2024
Treaties and Land Claims
First Nation’s moose hunting case to make ‘new case law’ in Manitoba, lawyers say as hearings conclude
Province’s lawyers ask judge to dismiss Pimicikamak Cree Nation’s injunction request Manitoba’s legal team has asked a judge to dismiss two applications that question the……
November 14, 2024
Call to Action # 92
First Nations pitch Indigenous-led LNG to the world at COP29
People walk through the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. Photo: Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photos. APTN News: By Local Journalism Initiative -……
November 18, 2024
Environment
Ojibway Nation in northern Ontario says yes in referendum on possible nuclear waste site
APTN News: The Canadian Press – A First Nation in northern Ontario has decided it is willing to continue with the process to potentially become……
November 18, 2024
Environment
Gwich’in brace for fight on oil and gas drilling in wildlife refuge after Trump victory
Trump Administration promises to re-open Arctic refuge to oil and gas drilling https://player.vimeo.com/video/1029756272?badge=0&autopause=0&player_id=0&app_id=58479 APTN News: A First Nation in Yukon and an Alaskan environmental group……
November 13, 2024
Environment
Indigenous governments in the N.W.T. sign $375M deal to protect their land
22 Indigenous governments sign on to 10-year funding agreement People gather around a fire-feeding ceremony Thursday morning in Behchokǫ̀ as 22 Indigenous governments in the……
November 14, 2024
Housing
Manitoba study shows Indigenous seniors struggling to find safe, affordable housing
Space for family, involvement in culture tops lists of most-wants Joanne Mason (left) and Lucille Bruce studied the housing options of Indigenous seniors in Winnipeg……
November 12, 2024
Environment
Toxicologist calls Fort Chip contamination assessment ‘essentially useless’
Drone image of the Transport Canada dock in Fort Chipewyan, Alta. Photo submitted by the Athabasca Chipewyan First NationListen to article Canada’s National Observer -……
November 13, 2024
Treaties and Land Claims
Sentencing of Tiny House Warriors involved in TMX confrontation adjourned to 2025
Members of the Tiny House Warriors display red dresses and cloth to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls along the perimeter of a……
November 5, 2024