Northern resource development tied to violence against indigenous women: report
Amnesty International wants action take to address violence and improve conditions for women working in the resource industry in northern B.C.
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Native women's group frustrated by 'no visible progress' in national inquiry
Native Women’s Association of Canada says families of missing and murdered indigenous women are frustrated there’s no way to connect with the commission
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B.C. child-welfare watchdog reveals questionable practices
System’s approach to incidents of sexual violence reflects only ‘nominal effort’ to prevent revictimization
Read the articleB.C. report finds indigenous girls in care more likely to face sex abuse
B.C. Representative for Children and Youth Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond finds 145 reports of sexual violence in child-welfare system disclosed between 2011 and 2014
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B.C. child-advocacy centres on shaky financial ground, co-ordinator warns
Remarks come after B.C.’s Representative for Children and Youth calls for expansion of child advocacy centres
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Thunder Bay police investigate officers’ alleged racist Facebook comments
The investigation marks the second internal police probe launched in Ontario this week into derogatory remarks about indigenous people
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Ottawa police probe officer’s remarks about suspicious death of Inuit artist
The body of Inuit artist Annie Pootoogook was found last week in the Rideau River
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Alberta court hears appeal over acquittal in death of Cindy Gladue
A jury last year found Bradley Barton not guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Cindy Gladue
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Nine things to know about the national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women
For years, Canada’s indigenous women have been disappearing and dying at alarming rates. Today, the commission is probing the systemic causes behind that violence
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Defence says Crown is backtracking in Cindy Gladue appeal
Bradley Barton’s acquittal on March 18, 2015, provoked rallies across the country
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Missing, murdered inquiry will lack power to compel police action
Draft of terms of reference for missing and murdered indigenous women inquiry says commissioners will report on systemic causes of the violence
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Recent hotel stays highlight Manitoba’s child-welfare challenges
The overnights underline the limited resources available outside the capital for foster children and raise questions of accountability.
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Manitoba backtracks on child-welfare data, admits mistakes in research
Province concedes ‘we were … wrong’ in rationale behind plan to exclude hundreds of voluntary-placement cases from reports
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Ontario government to unveil strategy to tackle human trafficking
The province’s strategy will be unveiled in June and will be broad in scope, but the government acknowledges ‘this issue overwhelmingly impacts aboriginal women’
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Political activism on behalf of indigenous women rooted in chief's frightening personal experience
Grand Chief Sheila North Wilson has experienced first-hand the everyday threats that confront indigenous women on the streets
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