Oct 26 In 2004, a Saskatchewan public inquiry found that aboriginal teenager Neil Stonechild, who froze to death in a snowy field on Saskatoon’s outskirts nearly 14 years earlier, was in police custody just before he died and that investigators closed the case prematurely. In 2021, Carolyn Bennett was shuffled out as minister of Crown-Indigenous relations. First Nations leaders had been deeply critical of her performance, saying she hadn’t lived up to the government’s mandate of reconciliation with Indigenous people. She was tapped to become the first minister of the new portfolio of mental health and addictions. In 2024, Ottawa apologized to a group of Ontario First Nations for mismanagement of their money over a century prior. The apology was based on a deal the Crown made with the First…
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