Foster parents threaten to leave family services centre, citing rotten relationship with new administration

Foster parents threaten to leave family services centre, citing rotten relationship with new administration

Foster parents are threatening to leave Family and Children’s Services of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville because the agency is bringing in changes they say will make it impossible to give the children the care they need.

Ottawa must act now on aboriginal child welfare

Ottawa must act now on aboriginal child welfare

In 1907, Canada's Department of Indian Affairs sent Dr. Peter Henderson Bryce to investigate residential schools in Manitoba and the Northwest Territories.

Tribunal hears First Nations child welfare case: Does Ottawa discriminate?

Tribunal hears First Nations child welfare case: Does Ottawa discriminate?

Systematic under-funding of child-welfare services on reserves means First Nations children today are essentially re-living the residential school nightmare that brought Canada so much shame, says the national chief of the country's largest aboriginal group.


Lawyer ‘confident’ aboriginal child welfare case will show discrimination


Ottawa’s aboriginal child-welfare policies slammed at human rights hearing

Ottawa ordered to find and release millions of Indian residential school records

Ottawa ordered to find and release millions of Indian residential school records


The federal government must scour its archives for millions of documents related to the Indian residential schools that operated in Canada for more than century – institutions where physical and sexual abuse was rampant and from which many students never returned.

Self-represented litigants ‘treated with contempt’ by many judges, study finds

Self-represented litigants ‘treated with contempt’ by many judges, study finds


Jamie Ryan has been fighting for equal access to his young daughter since the day she was born nearly three years ago.

Ottawa’s homeless youth tell their stories

Ottawa’s homeless youth tell their stories

The Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa (YSB) has launched a fundraising drive to support its work with the city’s growing population of homeless youth.

Obese dad starts hunger strike on Parliament Hill to reunite with kids

Obese dad starts hunger strike on Parliament Hill to reunite with kids


An obese dad who lost his two boys to the Children’s Aid Society early this week because of his weight started a hunger strike on Parliament Hill Friday.

Note: Give him his kids back, you low life piece of shit babystealers.

Obese dad plans hunger strike after kids ordered adopted

Obese dad plans hunger strike after kids ordered adopted

An Ottawa man who says he lost custody of his two children because he's obese plans to appeal the case and start a hunger strike at Parliament Hill Friday.

Too fat to father?: Ottawa man claims discrimination

Too fat to father?: Ottawa man claims discrimination


An Ottawa father is claiming his weight is one reason keeping him from regaining custody of his two children.

Obese father loses children to adoption on judge’s order

Obese father loses children to adoption on judge’s order


An Ottawa man whose obesity played a factor in whether he was fit enough to be a father has lost custody of his children after a judge ruled Wednesday that his two boys will be put up for adoption.

Judge to rule on whether obesity is factor in man`s fitness for fatherhood

Judge to rule on whether obesity is factor in man`s fitness for fatherhood

In a family court case to be ruled on soon, a judge will, in part, decide whether a 38-year-old Ottawa man is too fat to be a dad.

Victims of the ‘Baby Scoop Era’ speak out

Victims of the ‘Baby Scoop Era’ speak out

Young unwed mothers were once sent to institutions like Ottawa’s Bethany House where they forced to relinquish their babies at birth. Several of these women share their story of suffering with Shelley Page.

Brighton man suing CAS, OPP

Brighton man suing CAS, OPP

A Brighton man claims he’s being “hounded” by the local Children’s Aid Society and OPP after being acquitted on a series of charges that alleged the assault of a young girl.

Man charged after Children’s Aid Society worker assaulted

Man charged after Children’s Aid Society worker assaulted

A 58-year-old man faces charges after a Children’s Aid Society worker was assaulted and choked at her office in the east end of the city.

Court victory for First Nations child welfare

Court victory for First Nations child welfare

In a much-anticipated decision Wednesday, the court rejected the federal government’s efforts to First Nations groups to avoid the argument for better funding for child welfare on reserves.

Children's Aid Society under fire for Inuk baby adoption poster

Children's Aid Society under fire for Inuk baby adoption poster

The Children's Aid Society in Ottawa is being criticized this week for advertising an Inuk baby available for adoption on posters.

Judge weighs native child welfare's fate

Judge weighs native child welfare's fate

The future of child welfare programs on Canada's reserves is in the hands of a federal judge.

First Nations child welfare on the line in Federal Court

First Nations child welfare on the line in Federal Court

Is the federal government discriminating against First Nations children on reserves by giving them less money for education, health and child-welfare services than their fellow Canadians?

Feds taken to court over First Nations child welfare

Government still trying to assimilate aboriginals by underfunding child welfare, natives argue

First Nations confront Ottawa over discrimination, child welfare funding

First Nations confront Ottawa over discrimination, child welfare funding

After months of playing soft ball with the federal government in the hopes of improving conditions on reserves, First Nations are now switching to a hard-ball approach.

Family court dysfunctional

Family court dysfunctional

Action by Justice Minister Nicholson within 24 hours to promise to fix the equality complaints of foreign same sex couples in divorce shows the power of the legal profession's vested interests.