Actions and Commitments: Call to Action # 3
Exploring Stakeholder: "Government of Manitoba"
Updates on this page: 10
May 27, 2023
‘I feel like I’m not behind’: Indigenous students in Manitoba embrace Jordan’s Principle supports
Growing co-ordinator program tackles education achievement gaps for Indigenous kids Illeanna Knott is preparing to graduate from high school next month. The 17-year-old loves to draw and hopes to pursue a career in the arts after she finishes at her school in Brandon. For the first half of the school year, the teen juggled extracurricular activities...
May 10, 2023
AMC Recognizes Spirit Bear Day and the Implementation of Jordan’s Principle in Manitoba
NationTalk: Treaty One Territory, Manitoba – The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) celebrates Spirit Bear Day, also known as Bear Witness Day, and recognizes it as an opportunity for Manitoba to honour Jordan River Anderson’s legacy and continue the work toward the regional implementation of Jordan’s Principle for First Nations in Manitoba. The reason May...
July 20, 2022
SCO Adds Jordan’s Principle Coordinator at HSC Winnipeg Children’s Hospital
ANISHINAABE AND DAKOTA TERRITORY, MB — The Southern Chiefs’ Organization (SCO) is pleased to announce that after working with Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg (HSC) Children’s Hospital and Indigenous Health for more than a year, a Jordan’s Principle Coordinator is now available at HSC Children’s to support First Nation children and their families, throughout their care...
September 16, 2020
Judicial review of MHRC decision
NationTalk – The Manitoba Government is seeking a Judicial Review of a Manitoba Human Rights Commission decision that found a First Nations family was discriminated against because they could not access provincial health care and related services on reserve announced Indigenous and Northern Relations Minister Eileen Clarke. “A judicial review of this decision will bring much...
January 23, 2019
Keewaywin: Our Way Home, Manitoba First Nations Engagement
“Jordan’s ’Principle Service Coordination: A Manitoba Regional Approach to Full Implementation of Jordan’s Principle” released by the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs. An outcome of “Keewaywin: Our Way Home, Manitoba First Nations Engagement” is an Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs led initiative. It was designed to get First Nations input on the design and delivery of a regional...
October 19, 2018
EAGLE Urban Transition Centre
The funds ($1,187,715) support Jordan’s Principle for First Nations children living off reserve. The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) is administering the funds for programming, a project coordinator, and respite workers. Programming support delivered to off-reserve residents includes dental, medical appointments, therapy programs, and respite support to families with children ages 0 to 21. Delivered...
October 18, 2018
Keewaywin: Our Way Home, Manitoba First Nations Engagement
Keewaywin: Our Way Home, Manitoba First Nations Engagement is a First-Nations led initiative. It was created to ensure First Nations design and deliver a regional response to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal decision to stop discriminating against First Nations children that includes: Full implementation of Jordan’s Principle; and Reform the First Nations Child and Family Services...
December 31, 2011
AMC calls for Implementation of Jordan’s Principle
The AMC Chiefs in Assembly further called for the implementation of Jordan’s Principle by endorsing the “Declaration on Action for Implementation of Jordan’s Principle.”...
January, 2011
AMC “Child First Principle” resolution
The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC Chiefs in Assembly passed a resolution that called on the federal and provincial governments to implement the “child first principle” in resolving inter-governmental jurisdictional disputes, and, in honour of the memory of Jordan and with respect to his family and community, that this “child first principle” be termed “Jordan’s...
November 24, 2008
Bill 203 Jordan’s Principle Implementation Act
Private Member’s Bill 203 Jordan Principle Implementation Act was introduced in the Manitoba Legislature but never made it to 2nd reading....
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