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You are here: Home / Archives for Feature Articles / 41-4: Aboriginal Children

Celebrating Anniversaries: A Year after CHRT’s Ruling on Discriminatory Funding of Welfare Services for First Nations Children

By [show_author] | March 2, 2017

Celebrating Anniversaries: A Year after CHRT’s Ruling on Discriminatory Funding of Welfare Services for First Nations Children

January 26, 2017 marked the first-year anniversary of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal’s (“The Tribunal”) landmark decision regarding the issue of funding for child welfare services provided to First Nations children on reserve and in the Yukon. The complaint was filed in 2008 by the First Nations … [Read more...]

Aboriginal Child Protection and Dual Citizenship: Membership has its Benefits

By [show_author] | March 2, 2017

In British Columbia, the Director representing the Ministry of Children and Family Development must notify the Aboriginal community (i.e. Indian Band) when there are child protection concerns such as removal of a child from their parents. Under the Child, Family and Community Services Act … [Read more...]

Envisioning an Indigenous Jurisdictional Process: A nehiyaw (Cree) Law Approach

By [show_author] | March 2, 2017

Acknowledging Indigenous Laws and Legal Orders Indigenous laws and legal orders are the first original laws of the land we now call “Canada” and have been in existence since time immemorial.  However, the imposition of western colonial law(s), legal systems and policies upon Indigenous Peoples … [Read more...]

The “Sixties Scoop”: A Dark Chapter in Canadian History

By [show_author] | March 2, 2017

An Act of Visibility When a forgotten story in history is acknowledged, the people surrounding that story become more visible. Justice Edward Belobaba’s recent ruling in favour of Ontario’s Sixties Scoop survivors marks an historical act of visibility where Canada’s dark colonial history is … [Read more...]

The Missing Children Project

By [show_author] | February 13, 2017

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.   George Orwell When the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (“TRC”) was established, it was a direct result of a Settlement Agreement between Residential School Survivors, the Assembly of … [Read more...]

The Centre for Public Legal Education respectfully acknowledges that we are located on Treaty 4, 6, 7, 8 and 10 territories, the traditional lands of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit.

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