The Chiefs passed a resolution in support of the Spirit Bear plan at the Special Chiefs Assembly.

Open Letter to Justin Trudeau: Give First Nations Children an Equal Chance 

Joint press release by Amnesty International Canada, Broadbent Institute, Canadian Friends Service Committee, Children First Canada, First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, Justice for Indigenous Women, KAIROS, Oxfam Canada, Oxfam-Québec, Project of Heart, Rideau Institute and United Food and Commercial Workers Canada. 

A news report released by APTN on April 19th : First Nations students in Thunder Bay raise money towards safe place to live

Students from Thunder Bay, ON organize a spring carnival to raise money for a safe place to live for future students

A new report released today by the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) confirms the ongoing shortfall in Federal funding for First Nations education. As stated in the report:
 
"After comparing and analyzing data on federal and provincial education spending, PBO found evidence that INAC [Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada] funding mechanisms:

• do not adequately take into account important cost drivers for band-operated schools;
• favour students living on reserves who attend provincial schools; and
• put band-operated schools in remote northern regions at significant disadvantage."

Download the full report here.

For your consideration! This proposal for a First Nations Child and Family Caring Act for was presented by Sébastien Grammond at Osgoode Hall Law School’s Re-Imagining Child Welfare symposium on 21 October 2016. A more complete discussion of the proposal will appear in the Journal of Law and Social Policy.

 In this Ottawa Citizen editorial, Cindy Blackstock writes about the new government's lack of immediate action to help First Nations kids.