A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
A decades-long court fight between survivors of abuse at a notorious Catholic-run residential school in Fort Albany, and Canada, over disclosure of evidence, appears to have ended with a March 20, 2025 decision in Ontario Superior Court. Led by former student and Fort Albany Chief, Edmund Metatawabin, the survivors of St. Anne’s had been seeking […]
Committee will have to cease operations when current agreement expires on March 31 An expert committee formed to help Indigenous communities find unmarked graves at former residential schools in Canada says the federal government has discontinued its funding. “It’s a betrayal,” said founding member Crystal Gail Fraser, who is Gwich’in and grew up in Inuvik, […]
Canada’s Indian Residential Schools National Monument (First Nations, Métis and Inuit) will have pride of place on the western terrace of Parliament Hill with a commanding view of the Ottawa River. The monument will be “a contemplative space to remember, honour, educate, heal, and reconcile, and will speak to the country and the world for […]
WARNING: This story contains details of abuse of children at residential schools For the residential school survivor known only as claimant T-00185, justice has been elusive. He alleged in 2009 under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement assessment process that he had been sexually abused by two older boys at the notorious St. Anne’s Indian […]
