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 Dec. 20, 2023 indicated that 27 First Nations communities still had 29 long-term drinking water advisories. 143 had been……
Read MoreEnvironment
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……
Read MoreFood 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……
Read MoreHousing
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……
Read MoreSuicide 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……
Read MoreTreaties 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……
Read MoreUrban 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……
Read MoreFeatured Updates from “Other Issues”
Environment
Indigenous organization levels complaint against Canadian mining company
Shuar Arutam People come together to discuss and deliberate strategies against extractive megaprojects at an assembly last year in Macuma, province Morona Santiago. Photo by……
March 5, 2024
Environment
The protection of wetlands is tied to Indigenous and human rights
Despite their ecological, social, cultural and economic importance, over the past two centuries wetlands have been systematically destroyed for industrial, commercial and residential development. A……
February 29, 2024
Treaties and Land Claims
What Was Required to Create a Historical Treaty?
First Peoples Law Report: Looking to get informed about Indigenous rights? Check out my latest “Indigenous Rights in One Minute” instalment on historical treaties. I hope……
March 7, 2024
Treaties and Land Claims
First Nations and Ontario One Step Closer to Building All-Season Roads in the Ring of Fire
NationTalk: TORONTO – The Ontario government, Marten Falls First Nation and Webequie First Nation have signed an agreement to develop community infrastructure projects that could……
March 5, 2024
Urban Commitments to Reconciliation
Leaders from 11 Western Canadian cities issue formal request to Statistics Canada: halt release of annual Crime Severity Index rankings until formal consultations are held with smaller communities and Indigenous leadership
NationTalk: Saskatoon, SK – Elected officials from eleven municipalities, all in Western Canada, issued a public call-to-action today for Statistics Canada: an immediate stop in……
March 5, 2024
Environment
‘Everything is going downhill’: Athabasca Fort Chipewyan files lawsuit against Alberta regulator over Kearl spill
Reaction mixed to spill and whether tar sands are harming environment. Jean L’hommecourt co-chair of the Keepers for the water holds up a sign at……
March 6, 2024
Treaties and Land Claims
Treaty Road looks at the painful stories behind the numbered treaties signed with Canada’s Indigenous peoples
SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL – FOR SUBSCRIBERS Erin Goodpipe, right, and Saxon de Cocq appear in the premier episode of the series Treaty……
March 5, 2024
Treaties and Land Claims
Injunction pauses road to gold in northern Ontario
Chief Russell Wesley in Cat Lake First Nation. Photo by Matteo Cimellaro / Canada’s National Observer Listen to article Canada’s National Observer: Cat Lake First Nation……
March 6, 2024
Urban Commitments to Reconciliation
Host First Nations support the Vancouver Park Board dissolution
A Vancouver Park Board sign. (CityNews Image) NationTalk: CityNews – The xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations have told the B.C. government and the City of Vancouver that they support……
March 4, 2024
Environment
Akwesasne residents have concerns about proposed hydrogen facility in N.Y. state
Renderings of the proposed Massena Green Hydrogen Facility, to be located in Massena, N.Y. (Submitted by Air Products) CBC Indigenous: Residents of Akwesasne are concerned about……
March 4, 2024