Haana Edenshaw is a youth from Haida Gwaii. She’s accompanying Canadian Friends Service Committee at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York this week. On April 22 Haana delivered a speech at an event hosted by Canada, Ecuador and the Assembly of First Nations. She did it all in her Haida language. … read more
Conservative Senators jeopardize crucial human rights legislation
New Release Indigenous peoples’ organizations and human rights groups condemn partisan efforts to prevent debate on bill to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Proposed legislation crucial to reconciliation is being threatened by partisan stalling tactics in the Senate. Conservative Senators yesterday prevented Bill C-262 being sent to Committee for … read more
CBC’s The Sunday Edition covers our research on sentencing of parents
CFSC criminal justice program coordinator Verena Tan had the opportunity to speak with Michael Enright on CBC’s The Sunday Edition, broadcast on April 7th. Verena shared our research on sentencing parents and how this affects children. With well over a million listeners, we hope this program will help to raise awareness about an important issue. … read more
New video on growing up around people in trouble with the law
“People who had committed offenses aren’t different,” says CFSC member Joy Morris in a new video from CFSC. This was one important lesson Joy describes learning from a rather unusual upbringing. In the video, Joy explains that she grew up in a household where her mother, Ruth Morris, regularly welcomed people to stay while they … read more
CFSC’s office in Friends House Toronto. We are located on the traditional territory of the Wendat, Petun, and most recently the Mississaugas of the Credit River. This land has been the site of
human activity for 15,000 years and is the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum, a
sacred treaty between the Haudenosaunee and the Anishinaabek.
