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Child poverty has a disproportionately high effect on Indigenous households in Canada. [4] According to a 2019 study by researchers at the Assembly of First Nations and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), nearly 50% of Indigenous children in Canada—both on and off reserve—were living in poverty. [4]
In terms of gender and aboriginal poverty in Canada, there does tend to be a gap between aboriginal men and women when it comes to income and economical status. [41] Among aboriginal individuals living in rural Canada, women are less likely to have employment and often have a much lower annual income. [41]
The Sixties Scoop, also known as The Scoop, [1] was a period in which a series of policies were enacted in Canada that enabled child welfare authorities to take, or "scoop up," Indigenous children from their families and communities for placement in foster homes, from which they would be adopted by white families. [2]
It released regular publications about the level and adequacy of welfare incomes in Canada and statistical profiles of poverty in Canada. The Council also published special topic reports, for example, 'The Dollars & Sense of Solving Poverty'. Over the years, subjects included: A National Anti-Poverty Strategy [1] Aboriginal Children And Youth [2]
[13]: 2 The poverty rate in Canada in 2008, was among the highest of the OECD member nations, the world's wealthiest industrialized nations. [6] In 2013, Canada's high poverty rate ranked among the worst of 17 high income countries with 12.1% living in poverty. [91] Canada's child poverty rate was 15.1% compared to 12.8% in the mid-1990s.
For many Indigenous communities in Canada, food insecurity is a major, ongoing problem. [1] [2] A variety of factors, from poverty, the COVID-19 pandemic, government inaction and climate change, exacerbated by both historical and ongoing discrimination faced by Indigenous Canadians, have played a role in the creation of this crisis.
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life is a 2013 book by Canadian scholar James Daschuk. [1] The book takes an epidemiological approach and documents the historical roots of modern health disparities between Canadians and Indigenous peoples living in what is now Canada. [2]
In 1985, the Review Committee issued a final report, entitled "No Quiet Place" and known in child welfare circles as the Kimelman Report, [3] that had profound impact on aboriginal child protection in Canada and perhaps elsewhere. [4] The report had 109 recommendations that address issues in the existing Child Welfare system in Manitoba.