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
Drinking Water Advisories
Current Reality The previous update on July 4, 2024 indicated that 29 First Nations communities still had 31 long-term drinking water advisories. 145 had been……
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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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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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Housing
Current Reality April 16, 2024: Budget 2024 invests $918M over 5 years to accelerate work in narrowing First Nations, Inuit, and Métis housing and infrastructure……
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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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Urban Commitments to Reconciliation
Current Reality The 2021 census counted 1.8 million Indigenous people in Canada or 5.0% of the total population. About half (44%) of the Indigenous population—representing 801,045 First Nations people, Métis……
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Environment
Indigenous legal trust backs NSDF challenge
First Peoples Law Report: North Renfrew Times – The Algonquin community challenging the Near Surface Disposal Facility (NSDF) at Chalk River has launched a fundraising……
June 12, 2024
Environment
Finance for Forests: A Guide to Conservation Finance Options for First Nations
NationTalk: New Coast Funds report highlights conservation finance tools that can support First Nations in achieving their stewardship and conservation goals Today, Coast Funds, an……
June 18, 2024
Environment
B.C.’s ‘war in the woods’ battlegrounds to be permanently protected
An anti-logging protester is carried away by RCMP after being arrested for blocking logging trucks at the entrance to Clayoquot Valley, B.C., on July 30,……
June 19, 2024
Environment
Governments in Yukon sign deal to protect massive conservation area
The Inuvialuit and the federal and Yukon governments signed a new conservation agreement to ensure greater protections for almost 850,000 hectares of the territory’s northeast……
June 19, 2024
Environment
A new law aims to crack down on environmental racism in Canada
Legislation will track how communities are affected and ‘hold government’s feet to the fire,’ professor says A playground near the Aamjiwnaang First Nation band office……
June 21, 2024
Treaties and Land Claims
Justin Trudeau announces $140 million for First Nations’ education needs and to settle a land claim
The prime minister announced the funding on National Indigenous Peoples Day. Members of the We’koqma’q Mikmaw school drum group, White Bear, practice prior to an……
June 21, 2024
Environment
Environment minister responds to chief’s concerns about toxic sewage spill at Chalk River
‘We … have to be optimistic that it can’t get any worse,’ says Chief Lance Haymond of plant’s communication Minister of Environment and Climate Change……
June 24, 2024
Urban Commitments to Reconciliation
Lheidli T’enneh First Nation, regional district and City of Prince George sign updated MOU
Prince George Mayor Simon Yu, Lheidli T’ennech Chief Dolleen Logan, and Regional District of Fraser-Fort George chair Lara Beckett sign a memorandum of understanding. NationTalk:……
June 23, 2024
Environment
Land Awards Spotlight Indigenous Heroes and Projects
Accolades for First Nations leaders and initiatives at this year’s Real Estate Foundation of BC gala. Xtli’li’ye Lydia Hwitsum accepts her Land Champion award as……
June 24, 2024
Treaties and Land Claims
Proposed treaty would give Kitselas First Nation self-governance
If members vote yes on treaty next spring, First Nation will become self-governing The Kitselas Canyon, located in Gitaus, seen here, is now a national……
June 24, 2024