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Will the end of the Liberal-NDP alliance make for a feistier partisan atmosphere on Indigenous issues in the House of Commons this fall? Gary Anandasangaree doesn’t think so. “I like to think that reconciliation is a non-partisan issue,” said the Liberal minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations in a sit-down interview this week on Parliament Hill in…
The B.C. government has announced it will expand involuntary care for those with mental health and addictions issues, and will open “highly secure” facilities to house people detained under the Mental Health Act throughout the province. Premier David Eby announced Sunday that the government would open mental health units at correctional facilities throughout the province,…
Ontario’s ombudsman is launching an independent investigation into the practice by welfare agencies of housing children in hotels, motels, trailers and offices, and the provincial government’s response to it. The provincial ombudsman’s office announced its investigation in a news release on Thursday, after “several reports about children being inappropriately housed in these settings.” “We are aware of…
A group of Indigenous advocates is calling for reform in the child protection system, including at the Halton Children’s Aid Society (Halton CAS) where there will soon be a change in leadership, two years after the death of a 12-year-old boy in Ontario who was in its care. “For far too long, Indigenous ways and traditions within…
