indigenous children

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’

Cindy Blackstock: I believe those little spirits buried on the grounds of residential schools came to ensure the work gets done to end the injustices facing survivors

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

Cindy Blackstock: The federal government, which has an insatiable appetite to be thanked for inadequate measures, should expect no gratitude for discrimination

Trudeau’s Indigenous services minister talks about how to address the alarming rates of Indigenous children being taken by child welfare services

Indigenous leaders arrive at two-day meeting voicing optimism but one warns ’there’ll be hell to pay’ if it doesn’t spark meaningful change

Overrepresentation of First Nations kids in the system is ’not that different’ from the legacy of residential schools, says the Indigenous services minister

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