An Indigenous community in Canada’s western province of British Columbia has found dozens of potential unmarked graves on the grounds of a former residential school, the latest such discovery over the past year. Williams Lake First Nation announced on Monday that preliminary results of the first phase of a geophysical search at St Joseph Mission …
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Fifty-four unmarked graves at two former Indian Residential Schools in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan has been located with ground-penetrating radar, the Keeseekookse First Nation said at a news conference Tuesday, “A very solemn day,” said Keeseekookse Chief Lee Kitchemonia. “I think about all those children…gone to school and never returned.” The graves were located …
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Last August, when I was in the middle of covering the federal election, I got an email from W5 about a story they needed my help with — the forced sterilization of Indigenous women. While I was excited to expose what was happening to women in my community, this story had a sad, familiar ring …
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A Saskatchewan First Nation has located 14 possible burials on the grounds of a former Anglican-run residential school, the 10th community to make such an announcement since last May. George Gordon First Nation, located 100 kilometres north of Regina, is one of roughly 70 communities currently searching the sites of former residential schools for unmarked …
An independent audit of more than 80 years of files involving nine Quebec Catholic dioceses found at least 87 abusers among church personnel, according to a summary of findings released Wednesday. Retired Superior Court justice André Denis reviewed archived files of 6,809 people employed between 1940 and 2021 and uncovered 87 employees who were the …
The Canadian government Monday signed a deal to pay C$20 billion (US$15.5 billion) in compensation to the children of First Nations Indigenous families over a human rights complaint that has been ongoing since 2007, according to local media. The agreement was recorded as the largest such deal in Canadian history, the Canadian Press reported. “… …
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