NCTR receives $2M toward new building to house residential school records

The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation received a pretty big gift on Tuesday morning. Canada Life and the Power Corporation donated a total of $2 million that will go towards a new building for the centre at the University of Manitoba…

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Survivors urge all political parties to support residential school burial investigations

WARNING: This story contains details of experiences at residential schools. As Canada’s federal election heats up, residential school survivors and their advocates are urging political parties to pledge full support for investigations into unmarked burials and missing children linked to the institutions. The previous Liberal government announced several initiatives following the findings of potential unmarked graves at […]

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Elder’s story of residential school abuse finally told

By the time she was eight, Betty Ross had been subjected to more than most children. She had been abandoned by her mother, was then adopted and cared for by a loving Indigenous family, before being kidnapped by a Catholic priest and taken to a residential school, where she endured years of beating and verbal […]

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Final ruling issued in fight between survivors of St. Anne’s residential school and Canada over disclosure

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 […]

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