What’s New in Indigenous Watchdog: 198 New Entries: July 1 – July 31, 2024


Calls to Action (C2A) Status: August 1, 2024

Not StartedStalledIn ProgressComplete
15194614
16%20%49%15%
StatusLegacy Calls to Action
(1-42) + 50-52, 62-65
Reconciliation Calls to Action
(43-94)
Not Started2, 9, 10, 26, 34, 42, 51, 52, 6445, 46, 47, 55, 56, 89
Stalled6, 8, 12, 14, 17, 18, 19, 25, 29, 30, 3558, 62, 71, 77, 78, 87, 92, 93
Complete13, 15, 4149, 53, 59, 67, 68, 70, 80, 83, 84, 85, 94

Legacy Calls to Action include “Equity for Aboriginal People in the Legal System” (50-52) and “Education for Reconciliation (62-65) in order to keep all “Justice” and “Education” Calls to Action in one location

See also “Perspectives” post for a complete 6-page colour-coded Status Updates document summarizing all 94 Calls to Action

Indigenous Watchdog Updates

The following presents a year-to-date statistical snapshot of stakeholder actions across ALL themes that are either advancing reconciliation (Legacy and Reconciliation C2As and Government Commitments) or creating roadblocks (Current Problems)

Section20222023Jan. 2024.Feb. 2024Mar. 2024April 2024May 2024June 2024July 2024YTD
Current Reality5031133652525
Current Problems3151046901069814210477100717
Legacy C2As18831935372622292017186
Reconciliation C2As11715813171715191412107
Govt. Commitments to Truth and Reconciliation481129147181481181
Other Issues: Government Commitments7814820122017171820124
Background Content20432243841274033235
Total79620182002132092612151791981,475
Indigenous Success Stories3837564912750

Notes:

  • Current Reality includes ALL 94 Calls to Action and Other Issues
  • Legacy C2As, Reconciliation C2As, Government Commitments and Other Issues represent positive steps that are advancing reconciliation
  • Current Problems includes all those in “Calls to Action” plus “Other Issues” and “Government Commitments to Truth and Reconciliation
  • “Other Issues” presents information on Drinking Water Advisories, Food Insecurity, Suicide Prevention, Urban Commitments to Reconciliation, Housing, Environment and Treaties and Land Claims
  • Background Content provides additional context for Calls to Action and/or Themes
  • Multiple entries for an “Action or Commitment” or “Current Problem” have only been counted once
Table Numbers for Current Problems:
  • 5 new posts under Missing Children and Unmarked Graves highlighting the Federal Government funding cap of $500K for any First Nations searching for unmarked graves has only been counted once under Current Problems
  • 4 new posts on the Victoria Gold Mine tailings leak disaster in the Yukon has only been entered once

UPDATES to Current Reality

DateThemeDescription
July 21Drinking Water AdvisoriesAs of July 21, 2024 31 Long-Term Drinking Water Advisories are still in effect in 29 communities for an 82% completion rate. 145 Long-Term DWAs have been lifted
July 10Child WelfareFederal govt. reaches a major agreement with First Nations for a projected $49.8B for First Nations Child Welfare reform, double the original $23B settlement agreement
July 23Missing ChildrenGovernment announces $500K funding cap for any First Nation searching for unmarked graves
July 25Missing ChildrenMissing Records, Missing Children” identified the Provincial Archives of Alberta, vital statistics offices from Manitoba and Québec, Library and Archives Canada, Crown and Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) and the governments of Manitoba, Québec, Ontario, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories as failing to produce residential school records
July 25National CentreMissing Records, Missing Children” identified the Provincial Archives of Alberta, vital statistics offices from Manitoba and Québec, Library and Archives Canada, Crown and Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) and the governments of Manitoba, Québec, Ontario, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories as failing to produce residential school records

UPDATES to C2A Status Updates

DateThemeC2ADescription
July 10Child Welfare1Federal govt. reaches a major agreement with First Nations for a projected $49.8B for First Nations Child Welfare reform, double the original $23B settlement agreement
July 25Missing Children71Missing Records, Missing Children” identified the Provincial Archives of Alberta, vital statistics offices from Manitoba and Québec, Library and Archives Canada, Crown and Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) and the governments of Manitoba, Québec, Ontario, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories as failing to produce residential school records

New Sections

DateThemeSectionDescription
July 22Missing ChildrenCurrent Problems
Government Funding Commitments
Government announces $500K funding cap for any First Nation searching for unmarked graves
Government Commitments
Actions and Commitments
Current Problems
Background Content
Indigenous Success Stories
 

Government Commitments

Home Page: Government Commitments to Truth and Reconciliation: Government Commitments
2024/07/29 Government of Yukon and Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation sign a government-to-government accord on shared priorities
2024/07/26 Supreme Court of Canada / Cour suprême du Canada Judgement on Appeal
2024/07/26 Restoring the honour of the Crown after a breach of treaties
2024/07/26 Supreme Court rules Ontario and Ottawa made a ‘mockery’ of First Nations treaty, orders them to negotiate settlement in multibillion-dollar lawsuit
2024/07/22 'We can create a new history': Indigenous burial mounds on northern Ontario golf course fenced off
2024/07/19 Historic agreement to see Ste. Madeleine land returned to Manitoba Métis
2024/07/15 Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs and Canada sign Funding Agreement to restore self-government on ancestral lands
2024/07/11 Poilievre promises less interference, more economic control in speech to Assembly of First Nations
2024/07/09 How Do BC’s Two Treaty Breakthroughs Change the Landscape?
2024/07/08 Development agreement signed with Natoaganeg First Nation
2024/07/03 Anishinabek Nation and Ministry of Natural Resources sign Memorandum of Understanding
 
Home Page: Drinking Water Advisories: Other Issues
2024/07/25 Drinking water advisory on Star Blanket Cree Nation lifted after 17 years
 
Home Page: Environment: Other Issues
2024/07/19 New contribution program will focus on adapting to climate change to protect health
2024/07/15 B.C.’s vital Indigenous-led auxiliary is expanding
2024/07/11 Environment Ministers Discuss Priorities for Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience and Explore Carbon Management
2024/07/11 Boreal Conservation in Alberta Moves Forward Through Relationships and Reconciliation
2024/07/11 Agreement-in-principle reached to modernize Columbia River Treaty
2024/07/09 Polar Knowledge Canada Board of Directors and United States Arctic Research Commission Meeting of the Boards at the Canadian High Arctic Research Station
2024/07/04 Government of Canada and Mi’kmaq Nation Government of Epekwitk reach agreement to establish the 48th national park in Canada
 
Home Page: Housing: Other Issues
2024/07/31 New affordable homes coming for Indigenous people in Smithers
2024/07/30 ‘Like everyone else:’ Nunavut 3000 gives Kinngait family hope for better home
2024/07/23 Canada invests in homes in Montréal and Indigenous communities
2024/07/22 Native Men’s Residence opens affordable housing initiative for unhoused Indigenous men in converted Cabbagetown mansion
2024/07/22 New affordable homes open for Skidegate Band members
2024/07/12 Helping build more homes, faster in Paqtnkek Mi’kmaw Nation
 
Home Page: Treaties and Land Claims: Other Issues
2024/07/26 Supreme Court rules Ontario and Ottawa made a ‘mockery’ of First Nations treaty, orders them to negotiate settlement in multibillion-dollar lawsuit
2024/07/25 Feds pay First Nation in B.C. $147M over loss of water rights
2024/07/22 K’ómoks First Nation, Canada, and British Columbia take important step to advance reconciliation by initialling the draft K’ómoks Treaty
2024/07/18 Treaty-protected sxwayxum village site returned to Snuneymuxw: ‘Where our people have lived for thousands of years’
2024/07/14 Canada to formally apologize to 9 Dakota, Lakota Nations for historic designation as refugees
2024/07/09 How Do BC’s Two Treaty Breakthroughs Change the Landscape?
 

Actions and Commitments

Call to Action # 1: Child Welfare (1-5)
2024/07/11 AFN, federal government confirm $47.8B child welfare reform settlement offer
2024/07/10 First Nations child welfare reform draft agreement includes $47.8-billion in federal spending
2024/07/05 Children’s Special Allowance settlement update for members of Red River Métis CFS Class Action – opt out period begins
 
Call to Action # 4: Child Welfare (1-5)
2024/07/31 AFN Initiates National Dialogue on Transformative Child and Family Services Reform
 
Call to Action # 7: Education (6-12)
2024/07/02 Ontario Investing Over $3.6 Million to Train Workers in Hamilton
 
Call to Action # 10: Education (6-12)
2024/07/15 NTI is Seeking Expressions of Interests from Inuit Educators to Attend National Gathering for Indigenous Education
 
Call to Action # 11: Education (6-12)
2024/07/02 NTI and Regional Inuit Organizations Announce the Rollout of Nunavut Inuit Post-Secondary Education Program
 
Call to Action # 18: Health (18-24)
2024/07/12 Indigenous-led supervised consumption site coming to Winnipeg: NDP
2024/07/12 Government of Yukon implementing coroner’s inquest recommendations
 
Call to Action # 20: Health (18-24)
2024/07/24 NTI launches health survey in Nunavut
 
Call to Action # 21: Health (18-24)
2024/07/10 Montreal Lake Cree Nation Celebrates Health Facility Opening
 
Call to Action # 22: Health (18-24)
2024/07/04 Indigenous health organizations implementing RNAO’s evidence-based guidelines gather in Northern Ontario
 
Call to Action # 24: Health (18-24)
2024/07/17 A future mindset: Queen’s hosts Indigenous youth interested in health sciences
 
Call to Action # 29: Justice (25-42)
2024/07/05 $104M awarded to sexual abuse victims of Mount Cashel and N.L. priests
 
Call to Action # 30: Justice (25-42)
2024/07/30 Millions invested in improving safety in Mi’gmaq communities
 
Call to Action # 41: Justice (25-42)
2024/07/11 Justice was served today': Jeremy Skibicki found guilty of 1st-degree murder in deaths of 4 women in Winnipeg
2024/07/09 Inside Canada’s National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence
 
Call to Action # 42: Justice (25-42)
2024/07/26 Billions in compensation expected after Supreme Court rules Crown made a 'mockery' of treaty
 
Call to Action # 66: Youth Programs (66)
2024/07/19 Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation youth follow ancestral waterways in educational canoe trip
2024/07/07 Youth visiting Ottawa create podcast series on reconciliation
 
Call to Action # 75: Missing Children and Burial Information (71-76)
2024/07/03 The Government of Canada supports the Woodland Cultural Centre in Brantford
 
Call to Action # 80: Commemoration (79-83)
2024/07/03 Manitoba Government Announces Orange Shirt Day Fund will Advance Reconciliation
 
Call to Action # 87: Sports and Reconciliation (87-91)
2024/07/04 First Nations Olympic medalist to be inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame
 
Call to Action # 92: Business and Reconciliation (92)
2024/07/30 TC Energy sells partial stake in pipeline to Indigenous groups
2024/07/19 Kitigan Zibi, Abitibiwinni and Lac Simon – Anishnabeg communities and Hydro-Québec agree to negotiate in good faith the settlement of past differences
2024/07/18 Sudbury's Stobie Mine getting new life above ground
2024/07/11 PwC Canada announces commitment to the Progressive Aboriginal Relations (PAR) program as part of its ongoing Reconciliation journey
2024/07/04 Hydro-Québec announces $9B wind power project, one of the largest in North America
2024/07/04 Vancity announces new Indigenous Advisory Committee
2024/07/02 Non-profit organization meant to get more Indigenous people into agriculture launches
 

Current Problems

Home Page: Government Commitments to Truth and Reconciliation: Government Commitments
2024/07/31 Wet'suwet'en chief named Canada's first prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International
2024/07/30 Vuntut Gwitchin citizen calls proposal to merge electoral ridings in Old Crow and Dawson City 'an insult'
2024/07/25 Why Rustad’s Reckless Indigenous Policy Would Be Disastrous
2024/07/15 National Indigenous leaders to meet premiers amid deteriorating relationship
2024/07/12 'It was noticed,' says Yukon AFN delegate who turned his back on Pierre Poilievre's speech
2024/07/12 If you think Indigenous people don't pay tax, think again
2024/07/11 Some First Nations leaders turn their backs on Pierre Poilievre
2024/07/11 Pierre Poilievre likens First Nations values to core Conservative beliefs in speech at AFN meeting 
2024/07/10 ‘Get off your phone and listen’: chiefs call out minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations
2024/07/04 Joint Statement from Chiefs in southern Ontario on the Métis Nation of Ontario’s continued attempts to divide First Nations
 
Home Page: Child Welfare (1-5): Legacy Calls to Action
2024/07/23 New report finds excessive workloads preventing B.C. social workers from properly caring for province’s most vulnerable young people.
2024/07/19 How One Boy’s Death Could Change Child Welfare in BC
2024/07/17 B.C.’s ‘massive error’ part of web of inaction that could have saved boy: advocate
2024/07/16 New report highlights series of significant missteps resulting in a child’s death – Representative for Children and Youth calls for both urgent and transformative change in systems of care
2024/07/16 Convicted of defrauding Indigenous youth, B.C. social worker earns full parole
2024/07/16 Manitoba mother cuts ties with Jordan’s Principle after troubling experience
2024/07/12 ‘Why wasn’t Cindy invited?’: Blackstock unaware of AFN’s child welfare announcement
2024/07/09 Assembly of First Nations receives settlement offer to finalize reform of child welfare
2024/07/08 Advocate questions how PM can plan apology for First Nations child welfare while government ‘wrongdoing’ persists 
 
Home Page: Education (6-12): Legacy Calls to Action
2024/07/31 Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond says a DNA test backs her ancestry claims. CBC asked experts to weigh in
2024/07/25 Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond likely has Indigenous DNA: law society
2024/07/08 'Growing tension' inside the public service over Indigenous self-identification
 
Home Page: Language and Culture (13-17): Legacy Calls to Action
2024/07/29 Métis artist finds copies of her designs on website based in China.
 
Home Page: Health (18-24): Legacy Calls to Action
2024/07/29 Inquest explores challenges of remote health care after death of First Nations woman
2024/07/27 Federal plan's cap on coverage for incontinence care products 'inhumane' and 'offensive,' say chief, doctor
2024/07/22 Manitoba First Nation says members without health care due to nursing shortage
2024/07/08 Nursing shortage crisis in northern remote First Nations is systemic racism: Chief
2024/07/08 Cree woman plans to get medical treatment she needs in Nicaragua
2024/07/05 AMC Calls for Culturally Safe MRI Services at PRHC in Portage la Prairie
2024/07/05 Calls for action after report finds unnatural death rates in some First Nations over triple Ontario average
 
Home Page: Justice (25-42): Legacy Calls to Action
2024/07/28 Court battle against Ottawa restarts over Indian Act gender discrimination
2024/07/26 B.C. Mountie convicted of obstruction in case of Dale Culver
2024/07/24 IIO ordered to make payment for discrimination after withdrawing job offer for B.C. Indigenous woman
2024/07/24 Victims’ families lose bid to fight Pickton evidence destruction
2024/07/22 Winnipeg serial killer knew what he was doing was wrong, judge says
2024/07/18 Human rights concerns spark investigation into Kenora, Ont. jail
2024/07/16 A white supremacist confirms what Indigenous inquiries have been trying to tell us for years
2024/07/16 No answers for northern Manitoba family whose daughter died in RCMP custody in 2023
2024/07/15 Nunavut prosecutors form new team dedicated to tackling sexual violence cases
2024/07/11 Judgment in unusual trial of admitted Winnipeg serial killer coming Thursday
2024/07/10 AFN calls for federal government to recognize First Nations jurisdiction over policing
2024/07/10 Chiefs support independent inquiry into murders of four First Nations women in Winnipeg
2024/07/10 Fight continues against secret hearings in challenge to CSIS spying on environmental groups
2024/07/09 Judge in murder trial weighs motivations of admitted Winnipeg serial killer
2024/07/05 20 years after disappearance, search for Tamra Keepness continues
2024/07/02 Federal justice minister quashes murder conviction of Saulteaux man
2024/07/02 3rd Pinaymootang First Nation man's conviction overturned in 1973 Winnipeg murder in light of new evidence
2024/07/01 5th Anniversary of National Inquiry: UBCIC Calls for Government Collaboration to Implement Calls for Justice
 
Home Page: Museums and Archives (67-70): Reconciliation CTAs (43-94)
2024/07/31 One of the world's oldest sacred shrines could return to remote Indigenous settlement in B.C.
 
Home Page: Missing Children and Burial Information (71-76): Reconciliation CTAs (43-94)
2024/07/29 Residential school survivor suing Catholic priest for defamation
2024/07/25 Senate report calls for Canada to compel Catholic entities to release residential school records
2024/07/23 Survivors group calls for more federal funding for organizations probing residential schools
2024/07/23 Ottawa ‘breaks commitment’ on residential school grave searches: NCTR
2024/07/22 AMC Advocates for Restoration of Federal Support for Unmarked Graves Initiative
2024/07/22 A BC Town Confronts Residential School Denialism
2024/07/18 Funding cut for residential school searches 'reflects a troubling denialism,' says chief
2024/07/17 Memorial park at former Mohawk Institute among projects at risk due to funding cuts
2024/07/04 Truth and Politics panel reviews new residential school graves report
2024/07/04 Growing Residential School Denialism Is an Attack on Truth
2024/07/04 Residential schools had complete control over Indigenous children’s lives: report
2024/07/03 ‘It’s shocking’: Pimicikamak Cree Nation says 187 anomalies discovered at former school
2024/07/03 History of residential school cemeteries is evidence of genocide, interlocutor says
2024/07/03 Indian residential school survivors and families deserve an easy-to-use database of names and records
 
Home Page: National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (77-78): Reconciliation CTAs (43-94)
2024/07/25 Senate report calls for Canada to compel Catholic entities to release residential school records
 
Home Page: Business and Reconciliation (92): Reconciliation CTAs (43-94)
2024/07/26 ‘Embarrassing’: Yukon premier blasts Bell over service issues
2024/07/26 AME releases “What We Heard” Report
2024/07/05 Exclusive: National Indigenous Tourism to cut funding for provincial groups
 
Home Page: Drinking Water Advisories: Other Issues
2024/07/04 Calgarians aren’t the only people in Canada in the midst of a water crisis. But they’re the only ones we seem to care about
 
Home Page: Environment: Other Issues
2024/07/27 Indigenous firefighters share knowledge, training and compete during annual gathering
2024/07/25 Can a lake become a person in law? A B.C. First Nation wants to find out
2024/07/23 Yukon mine inspector directs Victoria Gold to shore up water treatment efforts
2024/07/20 Evacuation order issued for Little Red River Cree Nation due to encroaching wildfire
2024/07/19 The Tŝilhqot’in Nation calls for urgent action to stop interception by Alaska fisheries of historically low returns of Fraser Sockeye
2024/07/18 Yukon government ready to step in after mine disaster, firm’s silence ‘unhelpful’
2024/07/17 First Nation in B.C. issues new wildfire evacuation orders
2024/07/17 'Every minute matters': Experts with first-hand accounts at Victoria Gold mine disclose gravity of problems
2024/07/16 First Nations across Canada join Chiefs of Ontario in challenging carbon pricing inequities
2024/07/12 First Nation challenges nuclear waste decision in federal court
2024/07/11 Degrowth offers a path to a truly just global energy transition
2024/07/10 Grassy Narrows First Nation appeals to international human rights commission over mercury contamination
2024/07/09 ‘Bring back the trees’: Tłı̨chǫ Nation replanting after last year’s wildfires
2024/07/08 'Nobody has these stories': Canada's longest river at record low levels
2024/07/04 Yukon minister says cyanide found in creek after ‘serious and significant slide’ at Eagle Gold Mine
2024/07/03 First Nation in Yukon calls for halt to mining in territory
2024/07/03 As Canada braces for a raging summer, Indigenous communities remain displaced
2024/07/03 Carrier Lumber president backs First Nations' plea to restore local forest policy decision-making
 
Home Page: Food Insecurity: Other Issues
2024/07/03 Rankin Inlet flooded with applicants for food security program
 
Home Page: Housing: Other Issues
2024/07/19 AMC Demands Accountability for Rights Violations at Winnipeg Apartment
2024/07/03 New approach to Indigenous housing can address health and climate risks
2024/07/02 ‘It’s an emergency here’: Yellowknife and the people who have no place safe to live  
 
Home Page: Treaties and Land Claims: Other Issues
2024/07/31 The Blueberry River First Nations’ oil and gas dispute is a failure of colonial-imposed governance
2024/07/30 Judge reserves decision on review of $510M in lawyers' fees for Robinson Huron treaty litigation settlement
2024/07/30 N.W.T. Indigenous govts have their eyes on Robinson treaty settlement negotiations in Ontario
2024/07/30 B.C. First Nations claim fish farm licences infringe upon Aboriginal fishing rights
2024/07/30 Mi’gmaq communities file notice of action against New Brunswick to assert their land rights
2024/07/29 Northern Manitoba community evacuated 20 years ago now fighting for First Nation status
2024/07/23 'We never surrendered that': Standing Buffalo Dakota First Nation issues statement on duty to consult
2024/07/22 First Nation in B.C. calls for delay in its neighbour's treaty
2024/07/21 Flooding caused by failed muskrat management project in 1940s destroyed Manitoba First Nation's lands: lawsuit
2024/07/19 Manitoba Métis president ticketed for fishing without a licence, province says
2024/07/18 No mineral claims, exploration without permission, say Gitanyow
2024/07/12 Legal Notice to Beneficiaries of the Robinson Huron Treaty
2024/07/12 First Nation court action against Ontario could invalidate all mining claims in the province
2024/07/08 Blueberry River First Nations Returns to Court to Uphold Treaty Rights and Enforce Landmark Agreement
2024/07/08 Federal fisheries minister calls for review of arrest, treatment of Mi’kmaq fishers
2024/07/05 Lax Kw’alaams collaborates with Gitxaała, Gitga’at and Kitasoo/Xai’xais to advocate for reconciliation and rights recognition
2024/07/03 B.C. hereditary chief gets house arrest for pipeline blockade
 

Background Content

Home Page: Government Commitments to Truth and Reconciliation: Government Commitments
2024/07/31 Investigation finds at least 973 Indigenous children died in U.S. government boarding schools
2024/07/25 AMC Welcomes Back Sioux Valley Dakota Nation; Officially Advocates for Sixty-Three First Nations in Manitoba
2024/07/18 Manitoba Métis Federation expands footprint in downtown Winnipeg, buys 2 office towers near Portage and Main
2024/07/16 Assembly of First Nations Concludes 45th Annual General Assembly
2024/07/15 First Nations Market Housing Fund and First Nations Financial Management Board Sign MOU to Support First Nations Communities
2024/07/10 Probe of Assembly of First Nations finances finds no policy breaches, says confidential report
2024/07/09 AFN national chief relays a message of positivity to open general assembly
2024/07/09 First Nations leaders from across Canada gather in Montreal for AFN annual general assembly
2024/07/04 Bringing Indigenous Women’s Expertise to the UN
 
Home Page: Education (6-12): Legacy Calls to Action
2024/07/22 'This has brought me home': Back to Batoche celebrates Métis culture
2024/07/09 This archaeological site could prove humans lived in northern Sask. earlier than we thought
2024/07/06 History written in stone: Tours offer glimpse of Mi'kmaw petroglyphs
2024/07/05 How the University of Manitoba is decolonizing its art collection
 
Home Page: Language and Culture (13-17): Legacy Calls to Action
2024/07/30 ‘We Want to Blanket Ken with Love Today’
2024/07/05 Air Canada has new policy on sacred items in the cabin after incident with national chief's headdress
 
Home Page: Health (18-24): Legacy Calls to Action
2024/07/23 After 50 years of waiting, Little Bone opens new community centre
2024/07/10 SCO Releases Transformational Report on First Nations Health
2024/07/08 Beading the Canvas for Wellness and Recovery: Research Released on Mental Health Status Among the Métis Population of Alberta
 
Call to Action # 18: Health (18-24)
2024/07/08 U.S. singer Jelly Roll raising funds for Indigenous youth at Canadian debut in St. Catharines, Ont.
 
Call to Action # 22: Health (18-24)
2024/07/15 SCO Launches Latest Harm Reduction Campaign
 
Call to Action # 23: Health (18-24)
2024/07/23 Northern Ontario physician encouraged by seeing more Indigenous medical professionals
 
Call to Action # 41: Justice (25-42)
2024/07/23 Memorial walk planned for 10th anniversary of Tina Fontaine’s death in August
 
Home Page: Youth Programs (66): Reconciliation CTAs (43-94)
2024/07/16 Nunatsiavut to Nunavut: A Journey of Discovery for Youth
 
Home Page: Business and Reconciliation (92): Reconciliation CTAs (43-94)
2024/07/22 Flying Nickel Mining Corp. Signs Letter of Intent to Sell Minago Assets to Norway House Cree Nation
2024/07/19 Development industry pushed to build ties with Indigenous groups
 
Home Page: Environment: Other Issues
2024/07/15 A First Nation's geothermal project shows how fossil fuels can power the next seven generations 
2024/07/06 An Indigenous ecologist on why we need to stop and listen to save the planet
2024/07/01 ‘The History Isn’t Certainly Taught in Your Ordinary School’
 
Home Page: Housing: Other Issues
2024/07/19 A Housing Hub That Brings History Forward with Heart
2024/07/09 Housing crisis in Indigenous communities should consider health and climate adaptation: report
2024/07/08 A Home Made for Indigenous Peoples, by Indigenous Peoples
 
Home Page: Treaties and Land Claims: Other Issues
2024/07/17 Chronicling the Tŝilhqot’in Battles in War and the Courts
2024/07/05 Northern Ont. First Nation approves $110K minimum payouts from $200M settlement
 

Indigenous Success Stories

Home Page: Government Commitments to Truth and Reconciliation: Government Commitments
2024/07/10 Assembly blankets First Nation Lieutenant-General
 
Home Page: Education (6-12): Legacy Calls to Action
2024/07/02 Beloved Chilliwack Indigenous Elder who impacted the lives of many has passed
 
Home Page: Language and Culture (13-17): Legacy Calls to Action
2024/07/29 Ashley Callingbull becomes first Indigenous woman to win Miss Universe Canada
2024/07/10 ‘A paintbrush in my hand’: Alex Janvier, part of Indian Group of Seven, dies at 89
 
Home Page: Missing Children and Burial Information (71-76): Reconciliation CTAs (43-94)
2024/07/30 Residential school survivor, advocate Garnet Angeconeb has died
 
Home Page: Media and Reconciliation (84-86): Reconciliation CTAs (43-94)
2024/07/29 CBC Indigenous wins 3 awards at Indigenous Journalists Association conference
 
Home Page: Sports and Reconciliation (87-91): Reconciliation CTAs (43-94)
2024/07/31 Youth Chief Proudly Represents Southern Chiefs’ Organization on World Stage

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