A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) has released a list of 140 priests and brothers who worked in Canada’s residential school system as part of the Oblates, a Catholic missionary religious group. This new research, out today, is the result of years of work between the NCTR and the Oblates of OMI Lacombe […]
The wooden structure that has hidden a statue of Sir John A. Macdonald on the Ontario Legislature’s front lawn for five years is set to be removed this summer, reigniting debate about the first prime minister’s tainted legacy as the province faces new tensions with First Nations. The decision, pushed by Progressive Conservative and Liberal members […]
Dene National Chief George Mackenzie is speaking out against an ongoing residential school investigation in the Northwest Territories that has so far stalled…
Some N.W.T. MLAs pressed the territory’s culture minister on Thursday to waive legislation that they say is holding up efforts to return a deceased child’s remains to her home community. The child from Fort Smith, N.W.T. — identified only as Alma by the Deninu Kųę́ First Nation — died while at residential school in the 1940s, according […]
