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It has been five years since Elder Vern Harper passed away. Vern was an integral part of the Toronto Indigenous community for decades and worked for many years at Aboriginal Legal Services as a Youth Courtworker. 
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The Aboriginal Legal Services (“ALS”) Board of Directors is a group of dedicated volunteers supporting the mission and goals of ALS: to strengthen the capacity of the Indigenous community and its citizens to deal with justice issues and provide Indigenous-controlled and culturally based justice alternatives. Aboriginal Legal Services represented the family of Moses Beaver in a month-long inquest held in Thunder Bay which concluded on May 12, 2023. Moses was a member of the Nibinamik First Nation in Northern Ontario.
ALS is very excited to be working with Silent Drums and Sweetpea Event Services to develop an Indigenous Justice Strategy for Toronto. The first community meeting for the project will take place at the Evergreen Brickworks on Wednesday, May 10, starting at 9:00 am...
Ottawa, Ontario – At least 704 people have been killed or died during police use of force encounters in Canada since 2000. This information, and much more, is newly available to the public in an accessible online database tracking police-involved deaths in Canada...
ALS is very excited to be working with Silent Drums and Sweetpea Event Services to develop an Indigenous Justice Strategy for Toronto. The project will run until March 31, 2024 and is funded by the Department of Justice. You can find more information {here} and watch this space for more news as the project develops.
Jonathan Rudin, Special Projects Director at ALS, was on a panel on CBC’s The Current discussing the bail system in Canada and in particular whether we need to reform the bail system and make it tougher.
On behalf of the Board of Directors, I am delighted to announce the appointment of Chantell Barker to the position of Executive Director of Aboriginal Legal Services, beginning February 6th, 2023. Chantell is Cree and comes from the Sapotawayak Cree Nation. Chantell’s spirit name is Geetchi Nodin Ikwe (Strong Wind Woman) and she is from the Deer Clan.
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