A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
A proposed class-action lawsuit against the Canadian government says Indigenous children removed from their communities and placed in group homes beginning in the 1950s suffered physical, sexual and psychological abuse that “was commonplace, condoned and, arguably, encouraged.” The Federal Court lawsuit filed this month in Vancouver says children across the country were forcibly removed from […]
Treaty One Territory, Winnipeg – The Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) is calling on Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) and Minister Patty Hajdu to stop obstructing access to the Indian Registrar and other essential records needed to complete the investigation into the deaths of First Nations children who attended Residential Schools in Manitoba. […]
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…
