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‘The story was hidden’: How residential school graves shocked and shaped Canada in 2021Beginning with the finding of unmarked graves at the Kamloops Indian Residential School, over 1,000 such graves were found at residential school sites over spring and summer.CanadaDec 31, 2021
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Ukrainian Calgarians commemorate Holodomor victims: ‘It’s part of us’Calgarians commemorated victims of the Holodomor — meaning "death by hunger" — on Saturday.WorldNov 27, 2021
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Manitoba minister says residential schools meant to eliminate Indigenous peopleA Manitoba cabinet minister who initially defended some of the intentions behind residential schools now says the schools were part of a genocide.NewsAug 4, 2021
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National crisis lines offering support to residential school survivors see major spike in calls, interactions"When I went to my mother at the age of four, five years old to tell my mother that one of my relatives had sexually abused me, I was told be quiet," one survivor recalled.CanadaJun 6, 2021
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Indigenous youth in Saskatchewan reflect on intergenerational trauma from residential schoolsAfter more than a century of unforgettable trauma suffered by family members in residential schools, Indigenous youth say they are now able to truly embrace their culture.CanadaJun 3, 2021
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B.C. teachers to wear orange to honour kids found buried at Kamloops residential school"We want to support teachers as they try to make sense of this tragedy with their students, and so we are this is one way of reaching out and we can't do it alone."CanadaMay 30, 2021
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Beijing Olympics offer ‘rare opportunity’ to secure Uyghur Canadian’s release from Chinese prison'China's hosting the Olympics, it's a moment in time where China could do the right thing,' said the lawyer for a Canadian Uyghur who has been imprisoned in China for 15 years.InvestigationsMay 27, 2021
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‘Totally groundless’: China pushes back as U.K. calls treatment of Uyghurs a genocideThe British Parliament approved a nonbinding motion Thursday that said China's policies amounted to genocide and crimes against humanity.PoliticsApr 24, 2021
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‘We affirm the history’: Biden becomes first U.S. president to recognize Armenian genocideU.S. presidents for decades have acknowledged Remembrance Day to mark the events of 1915 to 1923 but have avoided using the term "genocide" to sidestep alienating Turkey.PoliticsApr 24, 2021
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U.K. passes motion declaring China is committing genocide against UyghursThe motion is non-binding and does not compel the British government to act.WorldApr 22, 2021
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