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 20, 2023 indicated that 27 First Nations communities still had 29 long-term drinking water advisories. 142 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 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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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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Urban Commitments to Reconciliation
New trust lets Vancouver Island residents donate percentage of property value to First Nations projects
Donations will go directly to participating First Nations and their projects Residents in the Capital Regional District can now direct a percentage of their property……
September 30, 2023
Housing
New housing for Blackfoot families
NationTalk: Alberta’s government is proud to celebrate the completion of new affordable housing in Lethbridge in partnership with the Blackfoot Family Lodge Society. To give……
September 22, 2023
Environment
Tongait KakKasuangita SilakKijapvinga-Torngat Mountains National Park Management Plan Tabled in Parliament
The management plan contributes to protecting the environment and connecting Canadians to an Inuit homeland in northern Labrador NationTalk: Parks Canada: National parks are gateways……
September 22, 2023
Treaties and Land Claims
Tahltan Nation Asserts Inherent Rights to Successfully Protect Culturally Sensitive Area from Proposed Mining Exploration
NationTalk: DEASE LAKE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, September 21, 2023: Leaders from the Tahltan Central Government (“TCG”), Iskut Band, and Tahltan Band are acknowledging the results of……
September 22, 2023
Treaties and Land Claims
Canada and Metlakatla First Nation Reach $150 Million Specific Claims Settlement Over Land Surrendered in 1906
Nationtalk: CFNR News: Canada will pay the Metlakatla First Nation $150 million after breaching its fiduciary obligations relating to land surrendered over a century ago.……
September 22, 2023
Environment
Governments grappling with ‘cumulative impacts’ in environmental assessments
Forging partnerships with Indigenous groups can be a remedy for regulatory uncertainty, say lawyers NationTalk: LEXPERT: Business of Law – The concept of “cumulative impacts”……
September 25, 2023
Treaties and Land Claims
‘We owe it to our children, those yet unborn within the Gitxaała Nation’
Coastal First Nations; Brett Bear Initiative: The Gitxaała Nation is standing up to protect future generations by challenging BC’s process for granting mineral claims in……
April 4, 2023
Treaties and Land Claims
Cowessess First Nation Receives Mineral Rights in Treaty Land Entitlement Transfer
NationTalk: Under the Cowessess Treaty Land Entitlement (TLE) Settlement Agreement, nearly 60 hectares (approximately 147 acres) of Crown mineral rights will be transferred to Cowessess……
April 5, 2023
Treaties and Land Claims
This court case could change the future of mining in B.C.
The Gitxaała Nation and Ehattesaht First Nation want the province to change how it gives out mineral titles — and they’re taking their fight to……
April 3, 2023
Treaties and Land Claims
When anarchists attack
How police say a peaceful, Indigenous-led protest over a B.C. pipeline was hijacked by violent outsiders Damage to the Coastal GasLink worksite on Feb. 17,……
April 10, 2023