New episode: The work to keep Indigenous children with their families (Patreon)

Published:

2016-07-01 02:17:58

Imported:

2026-06

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A new report out of Ontario paints a disturbing picture of the disparity between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal families when it comes to rates of investigation and removal of children. Sadly, it's a situation all too common across Canada. We hear what the executive director of an Aboriginal-run child welfare group makes of the data and what he thinks lays behind the numbers.

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Ep. 17: The work to keep Indigenous families together by mediaINDIGENA

New research out of the University of Toronto into Indigenous child welfare has highlighted what some already suspected: that, when it comes to investigations of abuse or neglect, Indigenous families in Ontario are way more likely to be investigated than their white counterparts-130 per cent more, in fact.