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National Indigenous News August 19 · National Indigenous Newscasts

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  SPEAKER_01: This is a look at your national indigenous news.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm Daryl Stranger.
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  SPEAKER_01: The chair of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has turned down a request from the federal government to add two new commissioners to a panel hearing a case of reforming the First Nations child welfare system across the country.
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  SPEAKER_01: According to Chair Jennifer Kurana, reasons she dismissed the request will follow.
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  SPEAKER_01: In July, the federal government requested that Kurana add two new commissioners to the panel overseeing a discrimination case against the federal government over child welfare on reserves and Jordan's principle.
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  SPEAKER_01: When the tribunal started hearing the case in 2012, the panel consisted of members Sophie Marsheldon, Rijan Bellanger, and Edward Lustig.
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  SPEAKER_01: Boulanger died suddenly in 2015, leaving just two to oversee the case.
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  SPEAKER_01: Lustig resigned on July 7th, leaving just Marshildon.
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  SPEAKER_01: According to the government, the case has gotten more complex since Belanger's death and requested that the chair not allow Marshaldon to continue on her own.
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  SPEAKER_01: First Nations organizations, including the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society and the Assembly of First Nations, the two groups that started the complaint back in 2007, argued adding two new commissioners now would cause delays in the process.
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  SPEAKER_01: In 2016, the tribunal ruled that Canada discriminated against First Nations children by knowingly underfunding programs that were supposed to help them.
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  SPEAKER_01: They ordered the discrimination to end immediately and that all sides work together to come up with a plan to reform the system.
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  SPEAKER_01: A decade later, Marshall Dawn is now reviewing a plan put forward by the federal government and another by a group called the National Children's Chiefs Commission, a body commissioned by chiefs across the country.
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  SPEAKER_01: Canada is also requesting that Marshall Dawn not be allowed to issue a written document of reasons why the panel approved the Ontario Final Agreement, an$8.4 billion agreement between First Nations in Ontario and the federal government to turn responsibility of the child welfare system to communities.
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  SPEAKER_01: Kurana said that decision will come later.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the capital region of Alberta, in Edmonton, Metis, Taekwondo Master is celebrating decades of martial arts and community impact.
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  SPEAKER_01: Daniel Barker Tromblay has more.
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  SPEAKER_00: Master Randy Hamilton of Impact Martial Arts at Edmonton is reflecting on more than three decades of martial arts mentorship and making a positive impact on youth in the community.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Metis instructor has earned multiple black belt ranks, including seventh degree Taekwondo mentorship and a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu while supporting youth programs and children with disabilities.
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  SPEAKER_00: Master Randy Hamilton of Impact Martial Arts speaks on the school's beginnings, established with a grant funding from a P2GOSAD and its mission to enhance children's lives through martial arts, resilience, confidence, and leadership.
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  SPEAKER_02: We started first teaching under my my own instructor, and then we decided we start moving out on our own.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then when I decided to move out on my own, we know we didn't have funds to just open a brand new commercial location.
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  SPEAKER_02: So we use Apatogasan to uh apply for funding and things of this.
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  SPEAKER_02: Got us started.
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  SPEAKER_02: The main goal for us is to help enhance the lives of children through the martial arts training, helping them to build resilience, uh, confidence, discipline, focus, leadership skills.
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  SPEAKER_02: One of the biggest joys, of course, has been like training is students up to black belt level where they uh achieve a certain uh technical level, but then they also have to overcome a lot of personal things on that path, and then developing leaders in the community.
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  SPEAKER_00: It admitted Abdato Barker Troble.
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  SPEAKER_01: The federal government is investing$2.4 million in a new Yukon First Nations-led health research network with community priorities to be set through consultations as it begins operating this fall.
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  SPEAKER_01: The funding delivered through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research establishes the Yukon Network Environments for Indigenous Health Research and brings the national program to all provinces and territories.
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  SPEAKER_01: An early focus for the center will be identifying Yukon First Nations health research priorities through consultation.
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  SPEAKER_01: The center expects to use circles, facilitated discussions, and gatherings with elders and youth to help determine what communities want studied.
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  SPEAKER_01: The network will be grounded in ancestral knowledge and relationships with land, water, animals, and community.
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  SPEAKER_01: The center will support Indigenous graduate students pursuing health research with master's and PhD projects accounting for a large share of network environments for Indigenous health research funding.
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  SPEAKER_01: The center will be housed at Yukon University with full operations beginning in October and early work focused on building on existing advisory relationships and preparing for community engagement.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a look at your National Indigenous News.