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
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)
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Government Commitments
Home Page: Government Commitments to Truth and Reconciliation: Government Commitments
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| 2024/08/28 |
Ontario Supporting Construction of Makwa Waakaa’igan Cultural Centre at Algoma University |
| 2024/08/21 |
Ontario, Pikangikum First Nation and Canada Partnering to Advance Construction of Berens River Bridge |
| 2024/08/19 |
Otipemisiwak Métis Government Moves Forward on Self-Government Treaty with Canada |
| 2024/08/13 |
Decades after being forced to leave, these Labrador Inuit got to return home |
| 2024/08/13 |
Canada announces $5M for culture centre in Sault Ste. Marie |
| 2024/08/05 |
Statement from Premier Ranj Pillai in response to the First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun’s requests related to mineral staking on their Traditional Territory |
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Home Page: Drinking Water Advisories: Other Issues
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| 2024/08/16 |
Muskoday First Nation opens new water treatment plant |
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Home Page: Environment: Other Issues
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| 2024/08/28 |
Independent Review Recommends Improvements To Wildfire Response; Government Provides Responses |
| 2024/08/15 |
Chief of First Nation encouraged by dialogue with province about review of Interlake flood channel project |
| 2024/08/14 |
The Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq and Indigenous Services Canada announce funding for Emergency Management Coordinators in member First Nation communities |
| 2024/08/12 |
Government of Yukon provides update on water, fish and mammal monitoring offsite of Victoria Gold’s Eagle Gold Mine |
| 2024/08/08 |
First Nations and the Government of Canada continue to strengthen partnership on climate action |
| 2024/08/06 |
Protecting communities from drought and floods |
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Home Page: Housing: Other Issues
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| 2024/08/08 |
Governments of Canada and Nunavut announce the renewal of the Canada Community-Building Fund for the next ten years |
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Home Page: Treaties and Land Claims: Other Issues
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| 2024/08/28 |
Additional Treaty Land Entitlement Transfer of Mineral Rights to Cowessess First Nation |
| 2024/08/26 |
Animbiigoo Zaagi’igan Anishinaabek and Canada announce negotiated settlement to address the First Nation’s historic Treaty Reserve Claim |
| 2024/08/01 |
Sask. First Nation agrees to $152M agricultural settlement with Ottawa |
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Home Page: Urban Commitments to Reconciliation: Other Issues
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| 2024/08/29 |
Council approves new Indigenous reconciliation framework |
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Actions and Commitments
Call to Action # 1: Child Welfare (1-5)
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| 2024/08/16 |
3 Sask. First Nations now have emergency safe houses to keep kids in their community |
| 2024/08/12 |
Manitoba Government Supporting Community Programs that keep Families Together |
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Call to Action # 4: Child Welfare (1-5)
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| 2024/08/21 |
Matawa Awashishewiigiihiwaywiin Open New Playground as Part of Delivery of Wrap-Around Services to Matawa Families At-Risk of Child Welfare Involvement in Thunder Bay |
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Call to Action # 8: Education (6-12)
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| 2024/08/23 |
Government of Canada supports Atikamekw of Manawan with more than $60 million for the opening of a new elementary school |
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Call to Action # 10: Education (6-12)
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| 2024/08/29 |
Historic signing of Letter of Agreement on Education Co-governance in Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Traditional Territory |
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Call to Action # 12: Education (6-12)
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| 2024/08/26 |
New childcare facility in Winnipeg creates economic opportunity for the city and culturally-focused education for Red River Métis children |
| 2024/08/09 |
Governments of Newfoundland and Labrador and Canada Announce Early Learning and Child Care Action Plan, More than 10,000 Spaces Now Operating at $10-a-day or Less in the Province |
| 2024/08/08 |
New child care centres coming for families throughout B.C. |
| 2024/08/07 |
Governments of Canada and New Brunswick announce Early Learning and Child Care Action Plan |
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Call to Action # 13: Language and Culture (13-17)
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| 2024/08/26 |
GNWT and Canada sign $17.7 million three-year agreement for Indigenous languages |
| 2024/08/09 |
'It feels like home': Southwestern Manitoba camp connects language to land |
| 2024/08/08 |
'No English!' inside Wiikwemkoong's first annual Anishnaabe language immersion camp |
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Call to Action # 18: Health (18-24)
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| 2024/08/29 |
New healthcare project uses art to address Canadian healthcare biases |
| 2024/08/29 |
Government of Canada invests in community projects to advance health equity |
| 2024/08/23 |
Second urgent and primary care centre coming to Vernon |
| 2024/08/16 |
Building a recovery community with Métis Nation |
| 2024/08/07 |
Feds fund health study for Indigenous communities downstream of oilsands |
| 2024/08/02 |
Manitoba Government Implements First My Health Team in Northern Manitoba |
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Call to Action # 21: Health (18-24)
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| 2024/08/21 |
Addiction treatment centre with focus on cultural healing opens in North Battleford, Sask. |
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Call to Action # 23: Health (18-24)
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| 2024/08/18 |
Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in medical student dreams of offering 'culturally safe care' |
| 2024/08/16 |
Opening doors to healthcare: Indigenous youth discover diverse career paths at Niagara Health |
| 2024/08/08 |
SCO Congratulates Lake Manitoba First Nation on Expansion of Health Care Services |
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Call to Action # 24: Health (18-24)
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| 2024/08/16 |
Open-Access, No-cost Anti-Colonial Learning Resource Offers Art to Transform Healthcare Systems Across Canada |
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Call to Action # 40: Justice (25-42)
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| 2024/08/27 |
Manitoba Government Increases Funding to Support Victims of Crimes |
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Call to Action # 41: Justice (25-42)
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| 2024/08/16 |
Manitoba announces nearly $1M for centre named after Tina Fontaine |
| 2024/08/08 |
Supreme Court of Canada dismisses appeal from man who killed Cindy Gladue |
| 2024/08/08 |
Manitoba honours 10th anniversary of Tina Fontaine's death, will release MMIWG2S strategy this fall |
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Call to Action # 65: Education for Reconciliation (62-65)
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| 2024/08/19 |
Camosun College to host hundreds of Indigenous education leaders |
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Call to Action # 75: Missing Children and Burial Information (71-76)
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| 2024/08/16 |
Feds reverse course on funding cap for unmarked grave searches |
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Call to Action # 85: Media and Reconciliation (84-86)
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| 2024/08/30 |
APTN launches new channel dedicated to Indigenous languages |
| 2024/08/30 |
‘It was all very exciting’: APTN News past, present and future |
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Home Page: Business and Reconciliation (92): Reconciliation CTAs (43-94)
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| 2024/08/28 |
Malahat Nation and Energy Plug Announce Ground Blessing Ceremony for Canada’s First Indigenous-Led Gigafactory |
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Call to Action # 92: Business and Reconciliation (92)
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| 2024/08/27 |
Rio Tinto aims for 'something that not many others have done': successful closure of an N.W.T. mine |
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Current Problems
Home Page: Government Commitments to Truth and Reconciliation: Government Commitments
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| 2024/08/30 |
First Nations in Ontario continue to call for more clarity surrounding the identification of six new so-called “historic Métis communities” in the region |
| 2024/08/29 |
‘The focus is the 7 generations coming after me’ says Hereditary chief on Gitanyow blockade in B.C. |
| 2024/08/29 |
NTI Welcomes Nunavut Court of Appeal Decision Allowing Inuktut Discrimination Lawsuit to Move Forward in Court |
| 2024/08/29 |
BC Conservative-Liberal Bizarre Reunification Scheme Threatens to Accelerate the Destructive Impact of the Climate Crisis and Dangerously Undermine Human Rights |
| 2024/08/29 |
Statement – Decision not to participate in Northern Lights difficult, but necessary. |
| 2024/08/29 |
Hereditary chiefs set up blockade to halt B.C. LNG pipeline work |
| 2024/08/28 |
BC’s Secretive Plan to Tighten Protest Response |
| 2024/08/28 |
First Nations leaders demand end to federal, provincial taxation of their people |
| 2024/08/26 |
BC Illegally Collected Personal Info Tied to the Wet’suwet’en Conflict |
| 2024/08/22 |
Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation says Yukon dragging its feet approving land use plan |
| 2024/08/21 |
Opinion: Supreme Court gives government a spanking for failing to uphold Indigenous treaty rights |
| 2024/08/19 |
Manitoba Chiefs ask Trudeau, GG to rescind senate appointment of broadcaster Charles Adler |
| 2024/08/14 |
Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation calls for end to Métis harvesting on their territory |
| 2024/08/13 |
Saskatchewan's oldest permanent settlement celebrates 250th anniversary |
| 2024/08/13 |
Mining regulations in Ontario ‘unconstitutional’ say First Nations chiefs |
| 2024/08/09 |
Dakota Tipi First Nation sues The Forks, governments, for financial compensation and ownership of land |
| 2024/08/09 |
Assembly of First Nations (AFN) Calls for Action to Protect and Uphold First Nations Rights on International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples |
| 2024/08/08 |
As Canada Modernizes Research Funding, Is It Neglecting Indigenous Priorities? |
| 2024/08/06 |
Yukon premier says he won’t halt mining on First Nation but will pause new projects |
| 2024/08/01 |
Court rejects Ottawa's attempt to quash lawsuit challenging Governor General's appointment |
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Home Page: Child Welfare (1-5): Legacy Calls to Action
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| 2024/08/21 |
AFN national chief promotes child welfare agreement, as expert raises concerns |
| 2024/08/06 |
Reflecting on the Status of Indigenous Child Welfare in Canada on the 10th Anniversary of Tina Fontaine’s Death |
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Home Page: Language and Culture (13-17): Legacy Calls to Action
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| 2024/08/30 |
'I just started crying': Appeal of Inuit language education lawsuit struck down |
| 2024/08/29 |
Federal Indigenous-language funding for GNWT held at 2016 levels |
| 2024/08/28 |
Indigenous sacred items still 'manhandled' despite new airport security protocols, says passenger |
| 2024/08/27 |
Midewiwin Lodge teaching at centre of name gifted to Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe |
| 2024/08/21 |
Imitation Inuit artifacts are everywhere, but a new treaty is trying to change that |
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Home Page: Health (18-24): Legacy Calls to Action
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| 2024/08/27 |
A ‘Gut-Wrenching’ Snapshot of First Nations Health |
| 2024/08/21 |
'Gut wrenching' report: B.C. First Nations life expectancy plunges by six years |
| 2024/08/20 |
O-Pipon-Na-Piwin Cree Nation declares state of emergency after stabbings |
| 2024/08/16 |
Jury at coroner’s inquest into death of First Nations woman begin deliberations |
| 2024/08/14 |
Doctors spread thin in remote Ontario communities, inquest for First Nation woman told |
| 2024/08/12 |
Nunavut has spent $54M to house elders in Ottawa over the last 7 years, government says |
| 2024/08/12 |
Oilsands whistleblower says federal pledge is 'bittersweet' |
| 2024/08/08 |
Lawsuit launched by family of Mi’kmaq woman in Nova Scotia claims negligence in her death |
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Home Page: Justice (25-42): Legacy Calls to Action
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| 2024/08/30 |
Winnipeg serial murders hit their communities hard: Manitoba chiefs |
| 2024/08/28 |
"'Shattered" doesn't explain how I feel': Sentencing for serial killer hears from families of murdered women |
| 2024/08/26 |
She was always a loving person’: Parents of Ashlee Shingoose share their grief |
| 2024/08/21 |
As sentencing looms for serial killer, statistics show Indigenous women remain unsafe in Winnipeg |
| 2024/08/16 |
Secwépemc inmate ends 4 week hunger strike in protest of unfair treatment, discrimination in prison |
| 2024/08/12 |
Tina Fontaine inspires action, hope 10 years after her death at age 15 |
| 2024/08/09 |
RCMP hired private spies to monitor Fairy Creek activists |
| 2024/08/08 |
Inquest jury urges RCMP to review detention policies after Secwe̓pemc man died in custody |
| 2024/08/07 |
Inuvik RCMP charge member of Beaufort-Delta Education Council with sex related crimes |
| 2024/08/06 |
Mackenzie Lee Trottier's body found at Saskatoon landfill after months of searching |
| 2024/08/01 |
Arrest of woman by Nunavik police reflects disturbing attitude towards Inuit, advocates say |
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Home Page: Museums and Archives (67-70): Reconciliation CTAs (43-94)
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| 2024/08/19 |
First Nations consultant scolds MPPs at hearing about controversial Sir John A. Macdonald statue |
| 2024/08/07 |
Bringing Inuit art back to Nunavut more urgent than ever, says advocate |
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Home Page: Missing Children and Burial Information (71-76): Reconciliation CTAs (43-94)
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| 2024/08/30 |
Opaskwayak Cree Nation says it's found evidence of unmarked burials at former residential school site |
| 2024/08/26 |
Regardless of numbers, Indigenous residential schools were a decades-long tragedy |
| 2024/08/09 |
Opposition grows against federal cuts for searches of unmarked graves |
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Home Page: National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (77-78): Reconciliation CTAs (43-94)
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| 2024/08/09 |
Sugarcane documentary explores residential school intergenerational trauma and resilience |
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Home Page: Business and Reconciliation (92): Reconciliation CTAs (43-94)
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| 2024/08/26 |
‘It’s not right’: Indigenous leaders call on Ottawa to clean up procurement system |
| 2024/08/15 |
Advocacy group asks for details of $1B sale to Indigenous consortium in the North |
| 2024/08/13 |
‘These are not your lands to give away’: Chief Black on Ontario’s Mining Act |
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Home Page: Environment: Other Issues
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| 2024/08/28 |
Blockades and Protests Greet New Pipeline Project |
| 2024/08/27 |
Quebec’s ‘refusal to cooperate’ forces First Nations to turn to Ottawa for help: Picard |
| 2024/08/26 |
'Ridiculously small' fine sends wrong message to industry: Indigenous leaders |
| 2024/08/24 |
Troubled water |
| 2024/08/23 |
A New Pipeline Battle Looms for BC |
| 2024/08/23 |
Leaders in Fort Chipewyan, Alta., urge people to avoid Lake Athabasca over contamination concerns |
| 2024/08/22 |
Alberta Energy Regulator guilty of ‘environmental racism’ says Fort Chipewyan First Nation chief |
| 2024/08/20 |
A Small First Nation Chooses Its Path |
| 2024/08/16 |
Yukon minister says there’s still ‘hope’ for gold mining to continue at disaster site |
| 2024/08/14 |
Thousands to evacuate Bunibonibee Cree Nation as wildfire approaches community |
| 2024/08/14 |
Is Canada’s critical-minerals strategy a green shift or greenwashing? |
| 2024/08/14 |
Court grants Yukon government’s application to appoint receiver to oversee gold mine clean up |
| 2024/08/14 |
Hundreds of evacuees return home, weeks after being forced out due to wildfire smoke |
| 2024/08/14 |
Ballantyne Cree Nation calls for help after community evacuated due to wildfire |
| 2024/08/14 |
Yukon asking court to appoint receiver over Victoria Gold Corp., says company |
| 2024/08/09 |
Yukon officials say dozens of dead fish found near Yukon gold mine landslide |
| 2024/08/08 |
First Nations in B.C. forge alliances over shared environmental concerns |
| 2024/08/08 |
In Saskatchewan, North America's largest inland river delta is under threat |
| 2024/08/06 |
Landslide shows power of Mother Nature, says chief as worries now turn to salmon run |
| 2024/08/06 |
Experts say Quebec wind turbine project threatens caribou habitat |
| 2024/08/01 |
Water is Sacred conference discusses growing concerns with the water crisis in Canada |
| 2024/08/01 |
First Nation calls for removal of mining firm from managing Yukon disaster site |
| 2024/08/01 |
Tour touting Hudson Bay 'Stonehenge' site disregards cultural, ecological importance, critics say |
| 2024/08/01 |
Logging, climate crisis killing once great Cedar forests on Vancouver Island |
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Home Page: Food Insecurity: Other Issues
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| 2024/08/21 |
Store manager in Old Crow, Yukon, says federal food subsidy program not keeping up with rising costs |
| 2024/08/12 |
'They forget the train is our lifeline': Pukatawagan family walked 100 km home to protest train cancellations |
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Home Page: Housing: Other Issues
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| 2024/08/14 |
Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory calls on federal government to prevent imminent displacement of Elders |
| 2024/08/08 |
Poor housing, lack of smoke detectors contribute to higher fire deaths of Indigenous people: Statistics Canada |
| 2024/08/02 |
NICHI and federal government announce funding for Endaayaan Awejaa in North Bay to advance critical Indigenous housing projects in urban, rural and northern areas and address urgent and unmet needs |
| 2024/08/01 |
Aboriginal Housing Society receives federal funding for affordable housing project |
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Home Page: Treaties and Land Claims: Other Issues
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| 2024/08/29 |
House arrest over, B.C. chief vows to fight on for Indigenous rights |
| 2024/08/26 |
Manitoba Métis leader wins battle over fishing ticket as charge is stayed |
| 2024/08/24 |
Indigenous leaders burn pipeline agreement, set up B.C. road blockade |
| 2024/08/23 |
Nova Scotia group wants a court to declare a First Nation’s lobster fishery illegal |
| 2024/08/22 |
Feds warn Ontario Algonquins not to 'usurp' own organization's modern treaty talks |
| 2024/08/20 |
$46M land claim vote delayed: Walpole Island may be entitled to much more, researchers say |
| 2024/08/19 |
Meet some of the first residents living on Caldwell First Nation |
| 2024/08/13 |
Michel Band society looks for scattered descendants as it pushes to re-establish First Nation |
| 2024/08/12 |
‘These are not your lands to give away’: Chief Black on Ontario’s Mining Act |
| 2024/08/02 |
‘We didn’t sign that treaty’: in Canada, the Anishinaabe fight for land they never gave up |
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Background Content
Home Page: Government Commitments to Truth and Reconciliation: Government Commitments
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| 2024/08/19 |
MNO Annual General Assembly Celebrating and Sharing Métis Stories and History in Ontario |
| 2024/08/09 |
In ‘Wînipêk,’ an Affirming Indigenous Vision for the Future |
| 2024/08/07 |
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples: Unions demand the right to self-determination |
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Home Page: Child Welfare (1-5): Legacy Calls to Action
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| 2024/08/21 |
ALIGN hosts Empowering Futures: A Gathering for Indigenous Child Welfare Sovereignty in September |
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Call to Action # 1: Child Welfare (1-5)
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| 2024/08/27 |
AFN national chief moves child welfare reform meeting to October or November |
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Call to Action # 4: Child Welfare (1-5)
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| 2024/08/21 |
ALIGN hosts Empowering Futures: A Gathering for Indigenous Child Welfare Sovereignty in September |
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Home Page: Education (6-12): Legacy Calls to Action
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| 2024/08/09 |
MNO Celebrates at the Great Rendezvous: A Journey Through History and Culture |
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Home Page: Language and Culture (13-17): Legacy Calls to Action
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| 2024/08/30 |
APTN launches new channel dedicated to Indigenous languages |
| 2024/08/27 |
Barbara Nolan launches series of Anishinaabe language videos for children |
| 2024/08/23 |
Museum summer student's 'culture case' will teach others about powwows |
| 2024/08/22 |
Tunngasugit expands reach in new space for Winnipeg’s urban Inuit |
| 2024/08/15 |
Six Nations language immersion school to finally get a home after council approves funding |
| 2024/08/12 |
How AI can help Indigenous language revitalization, and why data sovereignty is important |
| 2024/08/04 |
Indigenous people were always in Saint John — this is a reminder |
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Call to Action # 13: Language and Culture (13-17)
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| 2024/08/14 |
Advocates hopeful new Inuinnaqtun dictionary app can help revitalize the language |
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Home Page: Justice (25-42): Legacy Calls to Action
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| 2024/08/30 |
Boy, 15, fatally shot by 2 RCMP officers during 'confrontation' south of Edmonton, police say |
| 2024/08/29 |
Tanya Talaga learned about how Indigenous women were erased by discovering her own family's history |
| 2024/08/23 |
Academy enables youth and police to get better understanding of each other |
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Call to Action # 41: Justice (25-42)
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| 2024/08/16 |
Facebook is the ‘moccasin telegraph’ for missing and murdered Indigenous people |
| 2024/08/13 |
‘It’s never over’: Community gathers, braces for a serial killer’s sentencing hearing |
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Call to Action # 42: Justice (25-42)
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| 2024/08/22 |
In Brief: New Tool for Enforcing Indigenous Laws |
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Home Page: Museums and Archives (67-70): Reconciliation CTAs (43-94)
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| 2024/08/12 |
U of L digitizing Blackfoot items that were put into museums |
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Home Page: Business and Reconciliation (92): Reconciliation CTAs (43-94)
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| 2024/08/11 |
Indigenous-owned banking services expand in hopes of filling access gaps |
| 2024/08/10 |
This group of investors is making major acquisitions in Canada. The results could benefit us all |
| 2024/08/08 |
ICC Secures Funding for Critical Minerals Projects, Empowering First Nations Businesses and Communities |
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Call to Action # 92: Business and Reconciliation (92)
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| 2024/08/09 |
Ontario Investing Nearly $17 Million to Support Workers in Northern Ontario |
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Home Page: Drinking Water Advisories: Other Issues
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| 2024/08/12 |
AFN water resolution was ‘meaningful’ support: Onigaming chief |
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Home Page: Environment: Other Issues
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| 2024/08/15 |
Bringing Salmon Home to the Columbia River |
| 2024/08/15 |
In this tiny Indigenous community, a clean power project is driving the economy |
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Home Page: Food Insecurity: Other Issues
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| 2024/08/21 |
Can we grow veggies designed to combat diabetes? Manitoba researchers hope so |
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Home Page: Housing: Other Issues
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| 2024/08/23 |
MMF holds ribbon cutting, officially opens seniors’ housing complex in The Pas |
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Home Page: Treaties and Land Claims: Other Issues
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| 2024/08/25 |
Lac La Ronge chief announces $600M 'cows and plows' settlement for failed treaty promises |
| 2024/08/12 |
Commercial fishers demand stricter enforcement and penalties for illegal lobster sales – Federal and provincial governments need to step-up enforcement |
| 2024/08/03 |
First Nations celebrate 153rd anniversary of signing of Treaty No. 1 |
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Indigenous Success Stories
Home Page: Education (6-12): Legacy Calls to Action
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| 2024/08/30 |
Darrel J. McLeod, acclaimed Cree memoirist and novelist, dead at 67 |
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Home Page: Sports and Reconciliation (87-91): Reconciliation CTAs (43-94)
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| 2024/08/05 |
Shalaya Valenzuela hopes rugby 7s silver medal will inspire other Indigenous youth to pursue sport |
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Home Page: Environment: Other Issues
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| 2024/08/05 |
Meet the 1st Indigenous woman to be a commissioner with the International Joint Commission |
