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Inuit to take over child welfare

Labrador’s Inuit government is beginning a plan to take over child-welfare services from the Newfoundland and Labrador government. Gerald Asivak, the Nunatsiavut government’s minister of health and social development, said the move marks a “historic” first step toward ending a cycle of colonial harm inflicted on Labrador’s Inuit children which began with the residential school system. Asivak said the existing child-welfare services are a continuation of residential schools.

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