Last week the Federal Government released the 2024-2025 budget, with new funding allocations for Indigenous communities. While these allocations are significant and there are even new policy approaches to be found in the budget, chronic shortfalls and the historically paternalistic Crown-Indigenous financial relationship remain.
In mid-July, after years of Human Rights Tribunal Rulings, litigation and negotiation, the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) announced an agreement with Canada aiming to end discrimination against First Nation children in the child welfare system. AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak hailed the agreement as a turning point and thanked the “Government for coming …
Last week the Federal Government released the 2024-2025 budget, with new funding allocations for Indigenous communities. While these allocations are significant and there are even new policy approaches to be found in the budget, chronic shortfalls and the historically paternalistic Crown-Indigenous financial relationship remain.
The long-discussed Nunavut devolution was suddenly finalized. What can this devolution mean for Nunaviummiut?
How can Bill C-53 come to undermine Anishinaabe rights in Ontario?
Bill C-29 holds the potential to fulfill the TRC’s Call to Action to establish a National Council for Reconciliation. But will this Council have the tools necessary to hold the government — and Canadians — accountable?
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