Additional Themes from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action are comprehensive and detailed, focused as they are on what needs to be done to resolve long-standing issues negatively impacting Indigenous lives. Within the Calls to Action are specific areas that are mentioned in various contexts but that need more in-depth coverage.
Select each of the following to find details information of each of the various themes: Current Reality, Background information
Food Insecurity
Current Reality Food insecurity has reached crisis levels in all four Inuit regions. In one Inuit region, 70% of Inuit adults were found to be……
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Urban Commitments to Reconciliation
Current Reality The most recent census counted 1.67 million Indigenous people in Canada in 2016, or 4.9% of the total population. About half (44%) of the Indigenous population—representing 731,480 First Nations……
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Drinking Water Advisories
Current Reality As of Feb. 3, 2023, 28 First Nations communities still have 32 long-term drinking water advisories. Progress is as follows: Drinking Water Advisory……
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Environment
Current Reality From the devastating impacts of climate change to the devastation caused by rapacious resource extraction projects on Indigenous territory, the environment suffers the……
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Housing
Current Reality Sept. 22, 2022: The 2021 census finds about 17.1 per cent of Indigenous people live in crowded homes, and 16.4 per cent live in……
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Suicide Prevention
Current Reality “Canada is one of the few developed countries that does not have a national suicide prevention strategy.” Resilience in Life. Executive Summary. January……
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Treaties and Land Claims
Current Reality As the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples affirms in Article 28: Indigenous peoples have the right to redress, by……
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Treaties and Land Claims
Delgamuukw-Gisday’wa decision,
Union of BC Indian Chiefs – UBCIC marks the 24th anniversary of the Supreme Court of Canada’s ground-breaking Delgamuukw-Gisday’wa decision, which confirmed the continuing existence……
December 11, 2021
Treaties and Land Claims
Opposition to Ottawa’s Ring of Fire Environmental Assessment
Mar. 16, 2022: Timmins Today – A coalition of conservationists, environmentalists and lawyers want Ottawa’s Ring of Fire environmental assessment process to be broadened in……
March 16, 2022
Treaties and Land Claims
Nuchatlaht Nation Aboriginal Title case with BC Supreme Court
Windspeaker.com – The Nuchatlaht Nation began its legal battle in 2017 fighting BC and the federal government to get their land back. Their territory includes……
March 8, 2022
Environment
Inuit Circumpolar Council
NationTalk: Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) Canada and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) are pleased to announce a collaboration project aimed at bringing greater awareness……
April 20, 2022
Environment
13 projects funded under Canada-Inuit Nunangat-United Kingdom Arctic Research Programme 2021-25
NationTalk: The CINUK Programme aims to increase understanding of and address the environmental, social, economic, cultural and engineering/infrastructure impacts of climate change in the Canadian……
May 11, 2022
Treaties and Land Claims
Legacy of 1907 illegal land transfer leaves Peguis First Nation struggling with recurring flooding
Peguis FN was moved off of their original territory through an illegal land transfer in 1907 to their current location on Fisher River where they……
May 8, 2022
Environment
Nunavut Impact Review Board rejects Baffinland’s Phase 2 Proposal to expand the Mary River Mine
NationTalk: The Qikiqtani Inuit Association (QIA) is encouraged by the Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) recommendation to the federal government to reject Baffinland’s Phase 2……
May 16, 2022
Treaties and Land Claims
Beaverhouse First Nation finally recognized by Canada after 116 years
NationTalk: Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Grand Chief Derek Fox, on behalf of the NAN Executive Council, congratulates Beaverhouse First Nation for reaching a historic Treaty……
May 24, 2022
Treaties and Land Claims
Siksika First Nation sign a historic $1.3B land claim settlement to right a 100 year-old wrong
CTV News: SIKSIKA, ALTA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the chief of the Siksika First Nation have signed a historic land claim settlement, which the……
June 2, 2022
Environment
Great Bear Rainforest Review: How to preserve and protect while supporting sustainable forestry
NationTalk:The Province has been working in government-to-government partnership with First Nations and seeking input from stakeholders to complete a five-year review of the implementation of……
June 9, 2022
Government commitments
What governments say and what they do can be radically different. This section states at a macro-level what specific actions and commitments each level of government – federal, provincial and territory – has made towards reconciliation with each Indigenous group: First Nations, Metis and Inuit.
Clicking “Explore All” takes you the Government Commitments to Reconciliation landing page where you will find the Current Reality, Current Problems and additional Background Information
First Nations
What have federal, provincial and territory governments committed to the 634 First Nations – off and on reserve?
Métis
What have federal, provincial and territory governments committed to the Métis communities?
Inuit
What have federal, provincial and territory governments committed to the Inuit across their territories in Inuit Nunangat