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Brett Forester

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Brett Forester is a reporter with CBC Indigenous in Ottawa. He is a member of the Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation in southern Ontario who previously worked as a journalist with the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network.

    Latest from Brett Forester

    New Métis National Council president admits it could see funding cut, eyes 'unfinished business'

    The Métis National Council could see funding cuts as it grapples with the rapid withdrawal of two provincial members, the organization’s new president says. In a wide-ranging interview, Victoria Pruden lays out her vision for the embattled organization's future.
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    Survivors' Secretariat denied funding to continue search for missing children, unmarked graves

    An organization leading efforts to investigate Canada’s oldest and longest-running Indian residential school, fear they’ve been denied federal funding as punishment for criticizing the Liberal government, putting their search for missing children and unmarked burials at the Mohawk Institute in jeopardy.
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    AFN regional chiefs accuse national chief of stoking division on child welfare reform

    Six regional chiefs of the Assembly of First Nations say their leader is stoking division among the organization over the issue of child welfare reform, suggesting she may be too cozy with the Canadian government.
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    Indigenous Services routinely fails to spend millions approved for children's programs, document shows

    Indigenous Services Canada fails to spend tens of millions of dollars approved for use on two high-demand children's programs — money which then "lapses," or expires, under federal accounting rules, official data show.
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    Good for mining but bad for democracy? Why Indigenous groups in Ecuador oppose free trade deal with Canada

    Ecuador’s largest Indigenous organization is vowing to fight a proposed free trade agreement with Canada. Critics say the deal favours mining corporations and could encourage human rights abuses in the ecologically and culturally diverse South American country.
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    Manitoba Métis Federation calls allegation of conspiracy to harm national council inflammatory, damaging

    There is no evidence a former Métis National Council administration engaged in scorched earth political warfare to harm the organization and empower the Manitoba Métis Federation, just before the federation withdrew from the council in 2021, an ongoing civil trial has heard.
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    'We had concerns:' Subpoenaed Veterans Affairs officials testify in Métis National Council trial

    Veterans Affairs was immediately concerned when it learned the Métis National Council had transferred control over nearly $9 million in federal funding to the Manitoba Métis Federation in 2021, a subpoenaed official testified in an ongoing civil trial.
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    St. Anne's survivor awarded $72K after review of denied abuse claim is still fighting

    A court-ordered review of 11 student-on-student abuse claims at a notorious Ontario residential school has awarded a single survivor compensation 14 years after his claim was denied. The man's lawyer, however, says his fight isn't done yet.
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    Canada blasts St. Anne's survivors' 'scandalous allegations' in court fight over documents

    The Department of Justice has asked an Ontario court to condemn allegations that Canada intentionally withheld evidence of serial child abuse at St. Anne’s Indian Residential School in Fort Albany to deny survivors justice.
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    Canada seeks to dismiss St. Anne's residential school survivors' fight for accountability

    Federal lawyers are asking an Ontario court to dismiss a group of survivors' fight to hold Canada accountable for withholding evidence of widespread abuse at St. Anne's Indian Residential School during class-action compensation hearings.
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