A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
A majority of Canadians would support making the denial of residential school atrocities a criminal offence, according to a new survey. The Research Co. poll was conducted last month, after NDP MP Leah Gazan introduced a private member’s bill seeking to criminalize public denial of Canada’s residential school system, which forcibly separated Indigenous children from their […]
Kimberly Murray, Independent Special Interlocutor of Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and burial sites, issued her final report on October 29. The report meticulously documents the obligations and work needed to record and understand the disappearance and death of thousands of Indigenous children…
While the effects of the residential school system are still felt to this day, some Canadians deny it – and that denialism seems to be on the rise. Our Truth and Politics panelists weigh in on the issue…
The revelation convulsed all of Canada. Ground-penetrating radar had found possible signs of 215 unmarked graves at a former residential school in British Columbia run by the Catholic Church that the government had once used to assimilate Indigenous children forcibly taken from their families. It was the first of some 80 former schools where indications […]
