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Tsleil-Waututh Nation health and wellness director Andrea Aleck has brought forward plans to transform an empty lot on the reserve into a residential school memorial.

The council said the actions taken were due to Mayor Ron Paull jeopardizing the city’s relationship with Indigenous communities.

Manitoba Education Minister Nello Altomare said he is looking into the matter and is launching a governance review.

The lawsuit argues that the comments target residential school survivors who have spoken publicly about the deaths associated with residential schools.

A Manitoba community is hopeful a project to commemorate the lives of residential school students who were killed in a Winnipeg plane crash 52 years ago will go ahead as planned.

Tke̓ mlúps te Secwépemc Kukpi7 Rosanne Casimir says the excavation of the suspected unmarked graves of children who attended the Indian Residential School has not yet started.

Mayor Ron Paull’s wife Pat Morton has reportedly been circulating a book that implies cultural genocide did not occur at residential schools.

The health authority said only residential school survivors and family members with status cards can receive free counselling, effective April 15.

The province has spent more than $65 million on a search for burial sites since mid-2021, when the remains of 215 children were found in Kamloops, British Columbia.

The incident happened on June 4, 2022, when a driver allegedly struck four people during the memorial march. Two were taken to hospital with minor injuries.

One Indigenous mother stepped outside in unfamiliar territory to dance powwow while carrying her baby in a cradleboard. It was something that inspired many Indigenous mothers.

Models in uniquely designed red dresses are taking to the runway in British Columbia this weekend to make a powerful fashion statement about missing and murdered Indigenous women.

The historic Greenwood B.C. church destroyed by fire last week was days away from being shuttered, though its early end is no less a loss for those who remember it fondly.

The city says Bishop Grandin Boulevard is set to be officially known as Abinojii Mikanah, and Grandin Street will become Taapweewin Way.

A 30-seat mobile education centre called The Tour for Humanity was in the city to teach teens about hate and intolerance in Canada, using the Holocaust as its launching point.

'The Confluence: Historic Site and Parkland' is the new name Fort Calgary.

A controversial presentation by a school trustee in western Manitoba has members of nearby communities in disbelief.

The commission's mandate is to delve into problems amid what the current and former federal sport ministers have called a safe-sport crisis in Canada.

Alberta's government says a new draft social studies curriculum for elementary schools is ready to be tested in classrooms this fall.

Indigenous women, girls and LGBTQ peoples are six times more likely to be murdered than their non-Indigenous counterparts, the First Nations Leadership Council said.