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 October 9, 2024 indicated that 30 First Nations communities still had 32 long-term drinking water advisories (82% completion rate).……
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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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Food Insecurity
Who profits on hunger?’ Inuit send pleading emails to minister about food costs
A shopper looks on shelves inside the Northern Store where most groceries and goods are purchased in Nain, N.L., in 2023. Photo: Darren Calabrese/The Canadian……
November 26, 2024
Treaties and Land Claims
Federal government to sign first-ever modern treaty with Métis
Ceremony to take place Saturday afternoon in Winnipeg Federal government signs first-ever modern treaty with Métis LIVE IN: 19 minutes The federal government is signing……
November 29, 2024
Environment
Assembly of First Nations (AFN) Bulletin – Final Report on 2024 Dialogue Sessions and Recommendations to the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO)
NationTalk: SUMMARY: From April to June 2024, the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) held dialogue sessions on the transportation and storage of used nuclear fuel.……
November 28, 2024
Environment
While plastics are negotiated internationally, a First Nation breathes toxic air in Chemical Valley
Chief Janelle Nahmabin beside her office window in the Aamjjiwnaang administrative building. Photo by Sophie Bouquillon/Canada’s National Observer Canada’s National Observer: Aamjiwnaang First Nation is backed……
November 28, 2024
Environment
Northwestern Ontario communities chosen for Canada’s nuclear waste storage site
Selection process for controversial project began in 2010, area northwest of London also a candidate Laurie Swami, president and CEO of the Nuclear Waste Management……
November 28, 2024
Drinking Water Advisories
Chiefs in B.C. dismayed over AFN’s intervention in federal water legislation work
APTN News: The regional chief for the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) in British Columbia says he’s deeply concerned by what seems to be an……
November 27, 2024
Environment
Indigenous Self-Determination & Canada’s National Parks
In the following blog post, my colleagues Kate Gunn & Caitlin Stockwell provide an overview of Parks Canada’s new Indigenous Stewardship Policy and what it……
November 28, 2024
Treaties and Land Claims
Tłegǫ́hłı̨ Got’įnę in Norman Wells, N.W.T. nears self-government
A file photo of Norman Wells, in Canada’s Northwest Territories. (Eilis Quinn/Eye on the Arctic) The community, territory and Canada have initialed a draft final……
November 20, 2024
Treaties and Land Claims
Taykwa Tagamou Nation Files Claim Against Ontario and Newmont to Protect Traditional Lands
First Peoples Law Report: NNL Digital News: Timmins, Ontario – Indigenous News – Taykwa Tagamou Nation (TTN) has filed a Statement of Claim against His Majesty……
November 21, 2024
Environment
Yukon gold mine at risk of cyanide discharge says company managing clean up
https://player.vimeo.com/video/1033680243?badge=0&autopause=0&player_id=0&app_id=58479 APTN News: The company managing the takeover of the Eagle Gold Mine on First Nation Na-Cho Nyäk Dun’s (FNNND) traditional territory in Yukon is……
November 26, 2024