Residential School Unmarked Graves

• 88 suspected unmarked graves found at residential school in northern Alberta

  Sucker Creek First Nation Chief Roderick Willier remembers never feeling safe during the decade he spent at a residential school in northern Alberta.

  Canada

  Jun 29, 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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• International group hired by Ottawa asks to be given a chance on unmarked graves

  The federal government's decision to hire the Netherlands-based International Commission on Missing Persons to engage with Indigenous communities has been met with concerns.

  Canada

  Feb 22, 2023
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• Feds’ contract for advice on residential school unmarked graves a ‘misstep’: advocates

  Ottawa says it hired the commission because of the feedback from communities and it has a mandate to assist their searches on unmarked graves.

  Politics

  Feb 20, 2023
• Naming the unknown: How First Nations are identifying the children buried in unmarked graves

  Historical documents hold the clues, but finding the identities of missing children is grueling detective work.

  Canada

  Oct 22, 2022
• ‘Tip of the iceberg’: 6 potential unmarked graves found near former Pine Creek residential school

  The chief of Pine Creek First Nation in Manitoba says the discovery of six potential unmarked graves near a former residential school is only 'the tip of the iceberg.'

  Canada

  Jun 8, 2022
• Bennett faces call to resign after linking JWR residential school tweet with pension eligibility

  'UBCIC is deeply disturbed and disgusted by the extreme callousness, spite, and ignorance you have shown through the racist message you sent to MP Jody Wilson-Raybould on Twitter.'

  Politics

  Jun 25, 2021