Cindy Blackstock

Cindy Blackstock: ‘Canada continues to treat First Nations people as if they are not worth the money by providing deficient public services on reserves and choosing to not implement solutions’

She serves as executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, whose litigation against Canada has secured hundreds of thousands of services for First Nations youth

The first prime minister will no longer be put on a pedestal as the debate turns to what to put up in his place

Cindy Blackstock: First Nations children and their families should receive some measure of justice without having to fight Canada for it. Why won’t Canada pay?

Jane Philpott’s emergency summit reflected a new era of good will. Concrete agreements were harder to come by.

The 2016 census revealed that Indigenous children still make up about half of children in Canada’s foster care system.