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Indigenous Health Equity Fund
Press Release August 6, 2024 In March 2023, the federal government announced its intention to create the Indigenous Health Equity Fund to distribute $2 billion to Indigenous communities over a…
Assembly Of First Nations Will Continue To Fight For First Nations Jurisdiction As Affirmed In An Act Respecting First Nations, Inuit And Métis Children, Youth And Families
Assembly Of First Nations Will Continue To Fight For First Nations Jurisdiction As Affirmed In An Act Respecting First Nations, Inuit And Métis Children, Youth And Families December 5, 2022…
Aboriginal Legal Services Releases the Year Five Report Card for the First Nations Youth Inquest
Press Release December 9, 2021 Lawyers for the families of six of the seven youth who were the subject of the First Nations Youth Inquest in Thunder Bay from October…
Norton Rose Fulbright gifts $100,000 to St. Paul’s Hospital for Indigenous wellness
Press Release Global business law firm Norton Rose Fulbright today announced a gift of C$100,000 to St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation and Providence Health Care to support Indigenous wellness and reconciliation.…
AFN Releases Action Plan to End Violence Against First Nations Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People
(Ottawa, ON) – Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Perry Bellegarde, together with the AFN Women’s Council, today released an action plan aimed at ending violence against First Nations…
PIA Law will match donations made to The Frontline Fund in efforts to raise $100,000
Press Release TORONTO, Nov. 24, 2020 – PIA Law announces a new charitable giving campaign for the holiday season in partnership with The Frontline Fund, a coalition of over 165…
Brad Regehr is the new CBA President
Press Release OTTAWA – Brad Regehr of Winnipeg begins his year-long tenure as CBA President today, taking the helm of the 124-year-old Association in an unprecedented time for the legal…
The Mental Health of Personel: What We Know and What We Need to Know and Do
February 16, 2017 The mental health and safety of police personnel continues to be a high priority for both the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) and the Mental…
Fentanyl laced cocaine suspected in death and overdose on Ontario reserve – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Feb 10, 2017 By Liam Casey THE CANADIAN PRESS Police on a First Nations reserve in southwestern Ontario are investigating whether cocaine laced with fentanyl is behind the death of a…
B.C.’s health care shortcomings violate patients’ constitutional rights: lawyers – CP
Source: The Canadian Press Sep 6, 2016 By Geordon Omand THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER _ British Columbia shouldn’t be allowed to bar patients from taking action privately to meet their own medical needs…
