A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed a request from a federal Indian day school survivor to appeal a lower court ruling related to a multi-billion dollar settlement agreement she said left survivors like her shortchanged and retraumatized. Jessie Waldron, who attended the Waterhen Lake Indian Day School in northern Saskatchewan during the 1960s and […]
A “Calgary” judge has declined the Catholic Church’s application to strike down a residential “school” survivor’s class action against them, allowing her defamation lawsuit to proceed. In his decision last week, J.R. Farrington said that the basic essentials in Haida Elder Sphenia Jones’s pleading of defamation over alleged denialist comments…
A Cree survivor of the federal Indian day school system is asking Canada’s top court to intervene in a multibillion-dollar settlement agreement amid allegations survivors have been shortchanged and retraumatized by the compensation process, CBC News has learned…
A new class-action lawsuit is being proposed to compensate children of residential school survivors for inter-generational trauma, APTN News has learned. Saskatchewan lawyer Tony Merchant filed the statement of claim in Federal Court Wednesday. The claim still needs to be authorized by a judge to proceed, which could…
