After ‘burial features’ detected on McIntosh residential school grounds, researchers help families get closure.

Members of an Indigenous-led research team that detected 114 “unmarked burial features” on the former property of McIntosh Indian Residential School (IRS) are working to identify people who were buried to help families find closure. The results released Thursday provide a grim validation of what survivors and their families have been saying for decades: that […]

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Association says no unmarked graves found on initial search of Algoma University

A residential school survivor group says it’s expressing relief that, so far, no burial sites have been found during an initial search of a former Shingwauk Indian Residential School site in northern Ontario. However, the Children of Shingwauk Alumni Association acknowledges its work is far from complete, with vast areas of the property still to be searched…

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St. Anne’s survivors speak out on Canada’s attempts to dismiss fight for accountability

Survivors of the St. Anne’s residential school near Fort Albany, Ontario, are speaking at the Ontario Superior court this week to address Canada’s attempt to dismiss their fight for accountability. The virtual hearings started Monday morning and will continue through Friday…

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Canada seeks to dismiss St. Anne’s residential school survivors’ fight for accountability

Federal lawyers are asking a court to dismiss a group of survivors’ fight to hold Canada accountable for withholding evidence of widespread abuse at St. Anne’s Indian Residential School during class-action compensation hearings.The decade-old legal saga continues this week in Ontario Superior Court in Toronto, where former pupils of the notorious Catholic-run school in Fort Albany […]

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