Survivors of a residential school in northern British Columbia have given the community strength and courage to keep pushing in a decades-long fight to demolish the building, says the deputy chief of the Daylu Dena Council.
WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is committing $2.5 million to begin the work of supporting the identification, investigation, protection and commemoration of Indian Residential School burial sites across the province.
As the school year in Manitoba comes to an end, school-aged children will be able to return to their child-care programming and day camps will be permitted beginning on July 1, Families Minister Rochelle Squires announced Friday.
On Monday, June 21, the Louis Riel School Division (LRSD) Indigenous Education team is hosting LRSD National Indigenous Day Live.
Lawyer Teri Lynn Bougie still cries when she talks about the final message on her answering machine years ago from a residential school survivor, back when she was battling with federal government lawyers over his compensation.
Three teens have been charged after allegedly threatening to “shoot up” Hapnot Collegiate in Flin Flon.
CROSS LAKE, Man. — The chief of a Manitoba First Nation says a building that was used as a former day school for Indigenous children has burned down.
WINNIPEG — Manitoba kindergarten to Grade 12 students in Winnipeg, Brandon and the Garden Valley and Red River Valley school divisions will be learning remotely for the remainder of the school year, owing to the continued strain on the province’s healthcare system related to COVID-19.
OTTAWA — Federal Justice Minister David Lametti says he is open to considering different legal avenues when it comes to residential schools with burial grounds — in particular the possibility of protecting these sites and criminalizing anyone who might try to damage them or hide evidence.
OTTAWA — It is Canada’s fault that 215 Indigenous children were buried in an unmarked, mass grave at a one-time residential school in Kamloops, B.C., Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday.
OTTAWA — As memorials with tiny shoes have elicited cries of grief across the nation, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government are facing tough questions about why little has been done to implement recommendations released six years ago to find and document the unmarked graves of Indigenous children.
KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Hundreds of pegs, each marking the possible site of a child’s remains, were staked out on the grounds of a former residential school in Kamloops B.C., when Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Chief Rosanne Casimir arrived at the site last weekend.
