Ottawa ‘breaks commitment’ on residential school grave searches: NCTR

July 23, 2024

The federal government is being slammed for a “devastating” cut to funding for unmarked grave searches near former residential schools. The unexpected cap on funds was revealed last week. “It’s been devastating for us,” said Laura Arndt, secretariat lead of the Survivors’ Secretariat, an organization overseeing the survivor-led search for unmarked graves of children who died while attending the Mohawk Institute in Brantford, Ont…