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When Mary Louie was at Residential school she remembers wanting only one thing when she was a young girl at residential school: to get home.

Hundreds of orange shirts dotted the SaskTel centre on Wednesday to mark a day filled with reflection to honour residential school survivors.

With language being stripped away from students during residential schools, people are now left finding new ways to keep the Cree and Dene language alive.

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew took part in a ceremony with Indigenous groups this morning at a campground located on a burial site for children who died at a residential school.

Edmonton's oldest historic site served as a place to remember the history of Canada's Indigenous people on the sixth annual National Day of Truth and Reconciliation.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission concluded in its landmark 2015 final report that the school system was a central element of a state-backed policy of cultural genocide.

Reaction is pouring in to what appears to be a group of white nationalists holding a demonstration on a B.C. First Nation on Sunday.

Politicians in British Columbia's election campaign are paying their respects on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. 

Canada's federal justice minister ordered the courts to reopen the sisters' case, after they spent almost three decades in prison for what may be wrongful murder convictions.

Bill C-9, known as the Combatting Hate Act, received royal assent in June and was aimed at combating antisemitism, Islamophobia and other forms of hate against marginalized groups.

First Nations chiefs say the federal government is enabling residential school denialism by failing to make it a crime.

The Red Bear Party is making noise around the city by getting involved in their community and calling for a change. Every Thursday they hand out essentials to those that need them

Chief Rosanne Casimir said they have had discussions with the RCMP, saying the Mounties have also provided them with recent updates. 

A group representing seven Saskatoon-area First Nations has entered a regional agreement with Ottawa to reform the child and family care system and keep kids in their family home.

The province faces a projected deficit of $13.8 billion and Doerkson says Conservatives would trim that by growing the economy, if they win the snap election on Oct. 24.

British Columbians are going to the polls about two years ahead of schedule, after Premier David Eby called an early election to be held on Oct. 24.

The party's caucus has been thinned to 30, amid differences over its ideology, and questions about its direction under both its former leader and new leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay

Police used tear gas to push back people wearing hoods and masks and throwing fireworks at officers in the Place de la République, northeast of the Paris city center.

Rights groups accuse police in France ​of using heavy-handed tactics against minors, including batons, tear gas and flash-ball guns.

Executive Director Lorraine Daniels says the new building centered on cultural teachings and a dock planned for the riverbank are ways for survivors to reclaim the space.