Indigenous Residential Schools

• Residential school abuse records must be re-examined for names of deceased: advocates

  The records made up the Independent Assessment Process, the protocol through which survivors had to access compensation for abuses they suffered as children.

  Canada

  Jul 24, 2023
  
• Residential school ‘denialists’ growing increasingly violent, special interlocutor warns

  Canada has a role to play to combat this sentiment and that “urgent consideration” should be given to what legal tools exist to address the problem, Kimberly Murray says.

  Canada

  Jun 16, 2023
  
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• Release remaining residential school records, national library group says

  The documents are important for understanding the injustices and human rights abuses committed in the residential school system, the group says.

  Canada

  Sep 29, 2022
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• Montreal students make moccasins to honour children of residential schools

  Seeking to support truth and reconciliation, students from Beurling Academy in Montreal learned how to make moccasins in honour of the lost children of residential schools.

  Canada

  Mar 23, 2022
• Residential school records, previously withheld, to be released within 30 days: Miller

  The government will also review other residential school records it has withheld, the minister said, which may in fact be able to be released.

  Canada

  Dec 6, 2021
• Canadian Catholic bishops promise $30M to help residential school survivors

  The commitment of $30 million in funding comes after the Canadian bishops group issued an apology last week for the abuses committed by those in the church.

  Canada

  Sep 28, 2021
• Trudeau vows ‘concrete action’ after discovery of 215 bodies at former residential school site

  'We promised concrete action, and that’s how we’ll support survivors, families, and Indigenous peoples,' Trudeau told reporters on Monday.

  Canada

  May 31, 2021