Residential School Abuse

• Retired priest, 92, pleads not guilty to indecent assault in historical residential school case

  A 92-year-old retired priest charged with indecent assault in connection with a historical residential school case has pleaded not guilty to the charge.

  Crime

  Aug 18, 2022
  
• Manitoba RCMP charge retired priest, 92, with indecent assault in historical residential school case

  A 92-year-old retired priest is facing an indecent assault charge in connection with the RCMP investigation into the former Fort Alexander Residential School.

  Crime

  Jun 17, 2022
  
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• What can Canada do to prosecute residential school crimes? Here’s what we know

  'It could be quite onerous, but it's the duty we owe to each of those children that died in those graves and to their families,' said one advocate.

  Canada

  Jul 29, 2021
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• Podcast aims to heal, educate about residential schools: ‘It’s still affecting people’

  Thousands of people were forced into the residential school system, including Jade Roberts' father. She hopes sharing their stories helps survivors heal.

  Canada

  Dec 30, 2019
• New website launched for residential school survivors to decide fate of their records

  Claimants can choose to download a personal copy of their abuse claim records, share them with the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, or do nothing.

  Jan 14, 2019
• Decades after its closure, survivors of abuse at Woodlands receive compensation

  Woodlands survivors who have not come forward are encouraged to make a claim.

  Oct 8, 2018
• Records of residential school abuse can be destroyed after 15 years: Supreme Court

  Students provided accounts of physical, sexual and emotional abuse as part of an independent assessment process to provide compensation.

  Canada

  Oct 6, 2017
• Canadians urged to partake in Orange Shirt Day to honour residential school survivors

  The Orange Shirt Day campaign encourages Canadians to remember the wrongs of the residential school system, and honour its survivors.

  Canada

  Sep 29, 2017
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• Supreme Court to decide if residential school abuse stories should be destroyed

  The country's top court will decide if the highly personal accounts of residential school survivors, many of which include disturbing stories of abuse, should be destroyed after 15 years.

  Canada

  Oct 27, 2016