Crisis-struck residents of Flint, Mich. are taking the contamination of their city’s water to the courts. A federal suit announced Wednesday alleging that officials are still violating a federal law designed to protect the city’s drinking water is one of at least four separate attempts backed by Flint citizens to get legal recourse for the ongoing crisis. Here, what each major legal challenge …
A poster was attached to the note, emblazoned with the words “Cultural Genocide.” It referred to the “Sixties Scoop,” a modern-day echo of the residential schools nightmare. Between 1961 and 1985 child welfare authorities removed thousands of First Nations children from their homes, their families, their communities. They transplanted them in non-aboriginal families, guided by the belief they …
A poster was attached to the note, emblazoned with the words “Cultural Genocide.” It referred to the “Sixties Scoop,” a modern-day echo of the residential schools nightmare. Between 1961 and 1985 child welfare authorities removed thousands of First Nations children from their homes, their families, their communities. They transplanted them in non-aboriginal families, guided by the belief they …