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Ottawa's child welfare reform could mean cuts to Indigenous services, agencies warn

Ottawa’s planned overhaul of the Indigenous child welfare system could leave thousands of children and families without services, some Indigenous-run agencies say.

Indigenous-inspired buildings in Scarborough will invite people to see former borough differently

There is a Scarborough everyone sees and another, often unseen but always there and growing, that is Indigenous.

Ontario plans enhanced access to customary care for Indigenous children

Changes will address the overrepresentation of Indigenous children in the care of children's aid societies

Why Canada is reforming indigenous foster care

BBC News By Peter Goffin image captionChristine Miskonoodinkwe-Smith has reconnected with her indigenous culture The revelations that there are hundreds of indigenous children buried in unmarked graves at the sites of former residential schools have shaken Canadians. They have also increased calls for changes to the country s foster care system, where indigenous children are vastly overrepresented. Christine Miskonoodinkwe-Smith, from Peguis First Nation in Manitoba, was taken by child services when she was about a year old, along with her sister, and adopted by a non-indigenous family in the province of Ontario. The loss of family and cultural connections can be devastating to children in care.

New centre in Toronto will provide culturally relevant programming to Indigenous families