Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth launches Investigative Unit
Press Release Toronto, Ontario (March 1st, 2016) –Ontario’s Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth will now have the legislative authority to investigative matters concerning a child or a group of…
To Children’s Aid Societies in Ontario re: Request for disaggregated data regarding children and youth in Ontario’s child welfare system
Press Release February 24, 2016 By way of introduction, I am the Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC). On December 16, 2015, the OHRC announced that it will…
Listuguj Mi’gmaq Government: Letter to Campbellton Regional Hospital
Press Release February 24, 2016 Fisher River Cree Nation members interested in being a part of the voluntary Justice Committee are to submit a letter of interest and mail or…
Class Action Lawsuit: Residential Schools
Press Release NOTICE (BAND CLASSES) To Any Aboriginal Band in Canada who had Band members attend an Indian Residential School and has or had an Indian Residential School on or…
Site C Dam construction must be halted until B.C.’s Auditor General completes much-needed independent review, wide array of groups say
February 17, 2016 VICTORIA –First Nations, labour, environmental and legal organizations are calling on the B.C. and federal governments to suspend construction of the Site C dam pending completion and…
Day Scholars Class Action – First Nations Bands across Canada are Opting in daily!
Press Release February 18, 2016 Momentum is building for the Day Scholars Class Proceeding. In addition to the original two Bands, twenty two other First Nations Bands have opted into…
Caring Society requests confirmation of federal government’s decision to not appeal CHRT ruling
Press Release On the February 17, 2016 broadcast of CBC’s The National, Peter Mansbridge announced that the federal government will not appeal the recent ruling by the Canadian Human Rights…
Doubleview Lawsuit Against Tahltan Leaders and Elders Dismissed
Press Release VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–( Feb. 17, 2016) – On Tuesday, February 16, 2016, The British Columbia Supreme Court dismissed Doubleview Capital Corporation’s (the Plaintiff) claim against Tahltan leadership and…
Special report of the Québec Ombudsman – Detention conditions, administration of justice and crime prevention in Nunavik – Press invitation
Press Release QUÉBEC CITY, Feb. 15, 2016 – A special report of the Québec Ombudsman entitled Detention conditions, administration of justice and crime prevention in Nunavik will be tabled in the…
Advocate for Children and Youth, NL Released Annual Report 2014-2015
Press Release February 15, 2016 Advocate for Children and Youth, NL Released Annual Report 2014-2015 “I am delighted to present our Annual Report for the year April 2014 to March…
