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Victims pack Ontario courthouse to attend Sixties Scoop hearing. Indigenous people who were taken from their families as part of the Sixties Scoop packed an Ontario courtroom for a milestone class-action hearing that hinges on the value of cultural identity – and whose obligation it is to protect it.
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Sixties Scoop survivors recall painful memories in Ontario. Court hearing on lawsuit adjourns, set to resume Dec. 1 if no settlement reached. Supporters of the Sixties Scoop class-action lawsuit hold signs and flags outside a Toronto courthouse before lawyers press for a summary judgment on the case.
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From Seine River First Nation to The Annex: A Sixties Scoop survivor's journey to Toronto. When Melanie Montour was finally reunited with her mother, they no longer spoke the same language.
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What was the ‘60s Scoop’? Thousands of First Nations, Métis and Inuit across Canada who were ripped from their homes as children are getting their day in court after a years-long struggle in what has become known as the “Sixties Scoop,” a painful, but little-understood chapter of Canadian history.
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#SixtiesScoop lawsuit heard in court today, as survivors recall painful memories. http://www.cbc.ca/1.3733346
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Long-awaited ‘60s Scoop class action began Tuesday, adjourned to December. Hundreds of Indigenous people from across Ontario rallied Tuesday in Toronto ahead of a landmark court hearing on whether the Canadian government robbed them of their cultural identities…
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Lawyer in Sixties Scoop case delivers apology as hearing begins. First Nations children taken from their families suffered “profound harm” amid the loss of their culture, says Jeffery Wilson.
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Ottawa must apologize for “Sixties Scoop” and compensate survivors: Despite Ottawa’s shifting rhetoric on indigenous issues, the federal government has been remarkably slow to acknowledge its failure and compensate its many victims.
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Metro Morning
"60s Scoop"
It was called the "60s scoop"... Thousands of indigenous children were taken from their homes and put into foster care... Now some of those grown children have launched a lawsuit over the scoop. Matt Galloway spoke with Marcia Brown Martel.
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Dear Prime Minister: Right the wrong of the 'Sixties Scoop'.
In an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, aboriginal leaders call for resolution to grievances arising out of the ‘Sixties Scoop’ involving thousands of children.
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Indigenous leaders are calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for redress of the Sixties Scoop, a government policy under which child welfare officials removed Indigenous children from their homes and placed them with non-Indigenous families.
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The federal government says it is willing to settle lawsuits over the mass adoption of indigenous children into non-indigenous families, even as its lawyers file hundreds of pages of disclosure related to an Ontario class-action lawsuit scheduled to be heard in court next week.
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"Commit your government to resolving this issue without more delay and support our call to recognize and right an immense wrong — with both words and deeds," say Ontario Regional Chief Isadore Day and four other Indigenous leaders in an open letter to Trudeau.
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In Sarah Hamson’s Globe and Mail article regarding the Madonna/Ritchie custody litigation, Jeffery Wilson comments "Custody litigation is reserved for the very wealthy by and large. It has nothing to do with the children..."
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Brenda's results are highlighted in the 2009 article 'Millionaire ordered to pay $31,015 a month in temporary child support' by Kirk Makin. Brenda secured the largest temporary child support awarded by a court in Canada.
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