Nearly 25 years after Canada introduced legislation aimed at giving Indigenous communities the power to rehabilitate offenders in community-run healing lodges, critics say those lodges are ...

Indigenous advocates and government critics say new data showing that “White” and non-Indigenous offenders have made up 15 per cent of those in healing lodges over the past seven years does ...

The few Indigenous-run lodges that do exist survive on precarious budgets. In April, Canada’s Correctional Investigator, Ivan Zinger, toured Stan Daniels and came away struck by its scarcity.

Grégoire and Michael Canapé stand near the cooling rocks of the sweat ceremony lodge at Waseskun Healing Centre, an Indigenous-run facility that is is the equivalent of a minimum-security ...

Two decades later, there are just six Indigenous-run healing lodges with a total of 189 beds – or roughly one bed for every 21 Indigenous people in federal prison.

The recently opened Mikinàk Lodge in Ottawa serves as a retreat where Indigenous employees of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada can meet to pray, hold ceremonies and share their culture.