{"id":36476,"date":"2021-02-03T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=36476"},"modified":"2021-02-03T10:42:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T15:42:14","slug":"cindy-blackstock-gitxsan-advocate-for-indigenous-childrens-equality-returns-to-court-against-feds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/cindy-blackstock-gitxsan-advocate-for-indigenous-childrens-equality-returns-to-court-against-feds\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous children&#8217;s equality advocate Cindy Blackstock returns to court against feds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By David P. Ball<\/em><br \/>\n---<br \/>\nThe country's foremost advocate for Indigenous youth, Cindy Blackstock, has had to spend the early days of 2021 returning to her decades-old legal battle \u2014 fighting for equal funding and services for First Nations children.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is she once again seeking another compliance order from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal \u2014 where she won a 2016 ruling of \"discrimination\" by the federal government \u2014 but on Dec. 22, Ottawa filed a federal court request to overturn the tribunal's historic ruling. In 2012, the federal Privacy Commissioner even ruled her rights had been violated by civil servants \"surreptitious monitoring\" of her personal social media accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Blackstock is originally from British Columbia, and talked with The Pulse on CFRO about her Gitxsan nation upbringing, her mentors and inspirations, and why she believes only court orders and public opinion will turn the tide \u2014 and budge the dial \u2014 for Indigenous kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By David P. Ball &#8212; The country&#8217;s foremost advocate for Indigenous youth, Cindy Blackstock, has had to spend the early days of 2021 returning to her decades-old legal battle \u2014 fighting for equal funding and services for First Nations children. Not only is she once again seeking another compliance order from the Canadian Human Rights&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":36478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3265,225],"tags":[5643,5639,5640,5638],"radio":[237],"origine":[280,262,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36476"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=36476"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=36476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}