Tag Archives: Canada Child Welfare System

Iqaluit, Nunavut — Connie MacIntosh was working as a social service worker in Pond Inlet, a tiny hamlet in Nunavut, when her phone rang. On the line was a representative from a company operating group homes for youth in southern Ontario, more than 3,000 kilometres away. She said the caller …

A federal NDP member of Parliament is blasting the federal Liberal and Ontario Conservative governments following a Global News investigation that revealed allegations of targeting and mistreatment of Indigenous youth in the child-welfare system. “This is the dark secret of Canada. The exploitation of Indigenous children, taking them away from …

An Ontario children’s aid society has received $1.3 million in new funding from the province one week after being profiled by Global News. Sarnia-Lambton Children’s Aid Society (CAS), located in southwestern Ontario, received the new money and is home to a groundbreaking initiative in the child-welfare system called “Chasing Zero.” …