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Métis Nation Statement on Indigenous Child and Family Services Reform

Métis National Council OTTAWA, Jan. 26, 2018 /CNW/ – The Métis Nation is encouraged by the outcome of today’s emergency meeting on Indigenous Child and

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On eve of emergency meeting everyone agrees child welfare system is in crisis

APTN InFocus It’s a humanitarian crisis. That’s the focus of a two-day ‘emergency meeting’ on child welfare in Ottawa happening Thursday and Friday. The child

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‘No rudder’: MMIW inquiry asks for more time, more money to expand its work, but some Indigenous groups aren’t convinced

OTTAWA — The promises are enormous. In the next two years, the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women says it will hold up

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Trudeau sidesteps calls to reboot MMIW inquiry amid calls for resignations

By The Canadian Press OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is giving no indication he will address the growing demand for change to the independent inquiry his

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4th staffer leaves MMIWG inquiry commission amid calls for reform

Angela Sterritt · CBC News The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls lost its fourth staffer this week, CBC News has

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Outcomes & Priorities For Action to Address Violence Against Indigenous Women And Girls

Office of the Premier Inuit, Métis, and First Nations leaders, families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG), Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger, Ontario

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Working Together to Prevent and Address Violence Against Indigenous Women and Girls

Issued on behalf of parties named below OTTAWA, Feb. 28, 2015 /CNW/ – Indigenous families and leaders, Premiers, provincial and territorial Ministers and representatives and

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Nina Courtepatte’s mother calls for inquiry into murdered aboriginal women

CBC News Families and communities across Canada are again renewing their calls for a national inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada following

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