A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
Family of man in residential school denied federal funds to repatriate remains because he died as an adult | CBC News Loaded From there, he was sent to a number of hospitals, including a mental health institution formerly known as the Orillia Asylum for Idiots, without his parents’ knowledge or consent. In 1966, when he […]
It’s taken three years to get here but a street named for one of the founding fathers of the Residential School system may finally get a name change this month. Bagot Street, a road with just four addresses on it but considered an important connection to as it leads directly to Oshawa City Hall, the […]
Tanya Talaga is the author of Seven Fallen Feathers, All Our Relations and now, The Knowing, an intimate exploration of her family’s experience with residential schools. A member of Fort William First Nation in Northern Ontario, Talaga spent nearly 25 years as a reporter for the Toronto Star covering city hall and Queen’s Park…
Mario Ballantyne records his efforts to find a boy from his community who went missing from residential school almost a century ago…
