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Category: Indigenous News

Budget cuts / Governance / In the Media / Indigenous News

Huge cost to lack of support for Indigenous youth aging out of care

A new report from the Conference Board of Canada warns that failure to improve programs for young Indigenous adults transitioning out of government care could cost the Canadian economy billions, reports CBC.

The report, Empowering Indigenous Youth in Care as …

Federal Politics / Indigenous News / Truth and Reconciliation

Explainer: Child welfare compensation for First Nations people

The Canadian government and lawyers representing First Nations plaintiffs in a class-action suit have now reached agreements in principle on compensation and long-term reform of First Nations child and family services and Jordan’s Principle systems.

What does that mean? The …

In the Media / Indigenous News / Our people

On residential school impact: Start with listening

This piece was written by Board Voice Co-Chair Leslie Welin, who is also Chair of the Board of the Clements Centre Society.

On May 31 in the Legislature of British Columbia, Adam Olsen, a member of the Tsartlip First …

In the Media / Indigenous News

Report finds widespread racism in BC’s health care system

An investigation that set out to unravel a racist guessing game rumoured to be happening in one BC hospital’s emergency ward has revealed massive racism against Indigenous people around the province, both as consumers of health care and as health-care …

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