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Graffiti of homeless in Quebec City. Homelessness in Canada was not a social problem until the 1980s. [1] The Canadian government housing policies and programs in place throughout the 1970s were based on a concept of shelter as a basic need or requirement for survival and of the obligation of government and society to provide adequate housing for everyone.
The Program—which scholars have called Canada's first "comprehensive national policing strategy for its Aboriginal peoples" [15] —was designed to allow First Nations and Inuit communities to establish their own police forces that met the provincial standards for non-Indigenous police services, or establish their own RCMP detachment staffed ...
Research shows that indigenous people, who make up about 5% of the country's population, are disproportionately represented among Canada's homeless. FEATURE-'Death sentence': Indigenous groups ...
In collaboration with the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness, the COH (then CHRN) released the State of Homelessness in Canada in 2013, what they call the first national report card on homelessness in Canada. The report card stated that 30,000 Canadians are homeless every day, 200,000 in any given year. [6]
Quebec City police officers preparing for the city's Saint Patrick's Day parade in 2014. Police services in Canada are responsible for the maintenance of the King's peace through emergency response to and intervention against violence; investigations into criminal offences and the enforcement of criminal law; and the enforcement of some civil law, such as traffic violations. [3]
The ethnic spread of homeless people in Vancouver is unequal, with Indigenous people and those of European descent making up a large portion of the homeless. Indigenous people make up about 30 percent of Vancouver's homeless population while only comprising 2 percent of the total population of Greater Vancouver, and only 8 percent of the total ...
Indigenous women comprise 42 per cent of women in custody. [21] This is despite the fact that they comprise 4.9 per cent of the female population of Canada. [22] Indigenous women experience higher rates of poverty, precarious employment, and are statistically more likely to be single care givers.
The Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service was formed on January 14, 1994 through a tri-partite agreement between the governments of Canada, Ontario, and the Nishnawbe-Aski Nation. The primary goal of the agreement was the establishment of an aboriginal agency to provide efficient, effective and culturally appropriate policing to the Nishnawbe-Aski ...