Foster Care System

• More Indigenous family separations now than during residential schools, advocate says

  Indigenous 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.

  Canada

  Jun 27, 2021
  
• Child foster care is ‘the new residential school system,’ Nunavut MP says

  Mumilaaq 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.

  Canada

  Jun 4, 2021
  
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• Questions raised about foster care of black children after drowning death of 5-year-old Montreal boy

  The five-year-old apparently fell into a backyard pool in Montreal’s west end Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough.

  Canada

  May 16, 2019
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• ‘I found hope within my culture’: former Winnipeg foster child shares difficult journey

  A 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.

  Features

  Mar 13, 2019
• Saskatchewan-born woman spent 23 years searching for family

  Strangers reach out to Saskatchewan-born woman who spent 23 years searching for family.

  Canada

  Dec 28, 2014