A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
Premier Doug Ford’s government will not support a New Democrat’s bill to make the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation a statutory holiday in the province, the Indigenous affairs minister said Thursday. But Greg Rickford left some wiggle room to declare the day a holiday in the future. “We are not prepared to support a holiday […]
Indigenous children at Catholic-run Good Shepherd Homes had experiences similar to children at residential schools and the homes need further investigation for potential missing children, according to the final report of the Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites Associated with Indian Residential Schools. It was common practice to transfer girls who were deemed “troubled” or […]
An Indigenous community in Ontario’s far north has started to search the grounds of a former residential school for unmarked graves. Using ground-penetrating radar, technicians were on the grounds of the former St. Anne’s residential school in Fort Albany First Nation on Monday to try to find the remains of children believed to have died […]
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 […]
