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Author: Catherine Morrison
Publication Date: December 22, 2025 - 14:35
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Ottawa, First Nations present competing child welfare reform plans to human-rights tribunal
December 22, 2025
Ottawa and First Nations are presenting the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal with competing plans to reform the First Nations child welfare system today – the latest step in a lengthy fight that has stretched nearly 20 years.
The August tribunal order that mandated the proposals came nine years after it concluded that the federal government had discriminated against First Nations children by underfunding the on-reserve child welfare system.
Five week trial begins in lawsuit launched by photojournalist Amber Bracken, arrested by RCMP in 2021, and news outlet The Narwhal, claiming wrongful arrest, wrongful detention and violation of Charter rights.
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A civil trial launched by The Narwhal and a photojournalist against the RCMP began with both sides fighting over whether her high-profile arrest at the 2021 Wet’suwet’en pipeline standoff was part of a concerted campaign to limit press freedom.Amber Bracken and the British Columbia-based news outlet are seeking a declaration that her detention at a remote protest camp against the Coastal GasLink pipeline in the northwestern part of the province violated her and her employer’s constitutional rights to freedom of the press.
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