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Senate report calls for Canada to compel Catholic entities to release residential school records

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Indigenous peoples continue to struggle to access complete and timely records about Indian Residential Schools, according to a new report by the Senate standing committee on Indigenous Peoples. The report, Missing Records, Missing Children, was released Thursday and includes 11 recommendations to improve access to residential school records, including for the Canadian government to compel […]

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Government takes over residential schools from churches in 1969

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Warning: This video contains distressing details. Sweeping changes are on the way in 1969 as church authorities relinquish control of the residential schools they’ve run for decades, reports Craig Oliver. Aired May 1, 1969 on CBC News. About 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis children were forced to attend the government-funded residential schools from the […]

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