A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
Indigenous communities continue to search for unmarked graves at the sites of former Indian residential schools. This is going to take time and communities are navigating that process carefully. But as searches continue, so does the rise in residential school denialism that’s plaguing many survivors, their families and communities…
Two men who say they faced physical and sexual abuse at a former day school on a northern Manitoba First Nation over five decades ago are suing the federal and provincial governments alongside the school division that operated the institution. The men are now 63 and 59 years old, respectively, and request that their lawsuit…
The Trudeau government announced a new committee Wednesday that is tasked with identifying millions of unreleased residential school documents. “That’s the importance of our work here for the last two days is a plan to transition around 19 million documents outside government to an institution that will support and in this case…
The federal government says it’s willing to sit and negotiate a settlement with survivors of the Ile-a-la-Crosse residential school but it needs the province of Saskatchewan at the table to make a deal happen. “The Government of Canada is willing to step up to the plate and settle its portion of the liability with survivors […]
