Inquiry examining treatment of Innu in provincial child welfare system wraps up formal hearings in Sheshatshiu
The public inquiry focusing on the history of Labrador’s child protection system and the health…
Child welfare system
Cindy Blackstock sees ‘imbalance’ between $55M lawyers’ bill, welfare victims’ compensation
Cindy Blackstock, one of the people responsible for bringing forward a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal…
Innu elder asks how children will learn now that government has destroyed their land
Sheshatshiu Elder Tshaukuesh Penashue broke down at the public inquiry into the provincial child welfare…
Innu elders testify at inquiry about loss of culture ‘when the priests came’
Penote Antuan, an Innu elder from Sheshatshiu in Labrador told an inquiry looking into the…
Child welfare system at fault for Cree girl’s death in Alberta: judge
A provincial fatality inquiry report into the death of a four-year-old Cree girl in Alberta…
Mother who had her children taken by province offers advice on TikTok
She took her fight with the child welfare system to the social media platform Twitter…
Cold Lake First Nation bringing children back from Alberta’s child welfare system
A mother from Cold Lake First Nation in Alberta says her life is changed now…
‘There are no documents’; Parents fight for child who disappeared in Manitoba’s child welfare system
The government still includes the daughter’s name on the mother’s provincial health card.
‘Keep families together’: Moving beyond racist notions of neglect in child welfare
Experts discuss colonial failings and ways to support families during Beyond Neglect series.