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Saskatchewan horse ride to raise awareness for Indigenous children in care completes final yearThe QBOW Bring Home the Children Ride ends after 10 days of raising awareness of Indigenous children who were lost to the welfare system, residential schools and Sixties Scoop.Canada4 hours
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Saskatchewan residential school survivors respond to Angus Reid study on Pope apologyResidential school survivors in Saskatchewan react to a recent study that shows 59% believe the Pope's apology was a step towards reconciliation.CanadaAug 11
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Search underway for unmarked burial sites at former Alberta residential schoolA ground-penetrating radar search for unmarked burial sites is underway at Blue Quills University near St. Paul, Alta.CanadaAug 11
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Draft speech edited out Ottawa’s role in residential school abuses: documents“It gets to me that they're still in a place of defending themselves,” said Cindy Blackstock, executive director for the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada.CanadaAug 10
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The Pope’s tour is over. Here’s what some Indigenous Peoples want Canadians to take awayThe reconciliation tour is over. Global News asked Indigenous witnesses and their allies what they want non-Indigenous people in Canada to take away from Pope Francis' penitence.CanadaAug 5
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New Brunswick residential school survivors on ‘giving back all that pain’ to Pope FrancisSurvivors of the Shubenacadie residential school said they were "kidnapped" and imprisoned at the institution together, and attended the papal tour together "as family."CanadaAug 5
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Former Winnipeg residential school site to become public memorialThe Assiniboia Residential School, which operated between 1958 and 1973, was located on Academy Road in the River Heights area in Winnipeg.CanadaAug 4
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What comes after Pope Francis’ apology? Here’s what advocates sayAfter the Pope delivered his apology, Gitxsan advocate Cindy Blackstock published "A Post Apology ‘To Do’ List," which includes eight items that need to be addressed.CanadaAug 3
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Pope Francis says pain of Canada’s residential school survivors felt ‘like slaps’The Catholic Church has to face up to its responsibility for institutions that abused children and tried to erase indigenous cultures, the pope said Wednesday.CanadaAug 3
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Pope should’ve acknowledged genocide during Canada visit, Indigenous leaders sayPope Francis didn't use the word 'genocide' until he was asked by reporters on his plane back to Rome if he accepted that members of the church participated in genocide.CanadaAug 2
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