A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
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 […]
January 21, 2025 THUNDER BAY, ON: Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler, on behalf of the Executive Council, fully supports Survivors of the notorious St. Anne’s Residential School as their legal battles with the Government of Canada continue this week at a virtual hearing in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. “We are […]
(January 17, 2025 – Ottawa, Unceded Algonquin Territory) – The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak is reaffirming the AFN’s support for the Survivors of St. Anne’s Residential School as they prepare for a virtual court hearing on January 20–24, 2025. The hearing will address Canada’s attempt to dismiss their request […]
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 […]
