Foster Care System
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More Indigenous family separations now than during residential schools, advocate saysIndigenous adults accounted for 31 per cent of Canada’s incarcerated population in 2018-19, despite making up just 4.5 per cent of the Canadian adult population.CanadaJun 27, 2021
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Child foster care is ‘the new residential school system,’ Nunavut MP saysMumilaaq Qaqqaq said she has seen far too many friends and Inuit in her territory dying by suicide and children being taken from their homes and placed in the child welfare system.CanadaJun 4, 2021
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Questions raised about foster care of black children after drowning death of 5-year-old Montreal boyThe five-year-old apparently fell into a backyard pool in Montreal’s west end Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough.CanadaMay 16, 2019
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‘I found hope within my culture’: former Winnipeg foster child shares difficult journeyA woman who grew up in Manitoba's foster care system shares her experience with Global News and discusses how she thinks the system should change.FeaturesMar 13, 2019
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Saskatchewan-born woman spent 23 years searching for familyStrangers reach out to Saskatchewan-born woman who spent 23 years searching for family.CanadaDec 28, 2014
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