The post featured a photo of RCMP employees wearing orange to "honour and remember Indigenous children who were sent away to residential schools."

The ceremony took place at the St. Mary's Immaculate Conception Church, which served as a residential school for more than half of a century.

Canadians from coast to coast to coast are marking Orange Shirt Day to remember the experiences of Indigenous children taken from their homes to live in residential schools.

The underlying fight relates to a request by three survivors of St. Anne's in Fort Albany, Ont., to have their compensation cases reopened.

'I put my whole life into this file for years, and bankrupted my firm pushing it forward,' said Joan Jack.

An Ottawa cemetery's plaques show a model for how to remember the good with the bad when it comes to Canada's controversial founding figures.

Former Conservative party leader Andrew Scheer praised the accomplishments of John. A Macdonald, adding it’s “so frustrating” to see images of Macdonald being torn down in Canada.

The word Eskimo is also closely tied to colonialism, something that came relatively late to some Inuit communities.

Regina's John A. Macdonald statue and cenotaph in Victoria Park has been vandalized.

Members of Alberta's official Opposition and some Indigenous leaders have renewed calls for Premier Jason Kenney to fire his speechwriter over a 2013 essay that was critical of how Indigenous issues are framed in Canada, and which argues the narrative around residential schools amounts to a "bogus genocide story."