When an “instinctively combative” Stephen Harper reached across party lines to deliver the historic apology to Indian residential school survivors, it marked a rare moment when he attempted “consensus” during a centralized and secretive minority rule, according to a blunt assessment contained in a “secret” U.S. diplomatic cable obtained by APTN National News.
A Yukon First Nations man has been living in a tent for the last six months in Whitehorse.
The Committee on Abuse in Residential Schools, or CAIRS, runs a drop-in centre in Whitehorse for residential school survivors. After funding from the Aboriginal Healing Foundation ended last year, it is now fighting to keep it’s doors open.
Truth and Reconciliation commissioner Marie Wilson talks to APTN National News about the experiences of young women forced to attend residential schools
The Canadian government said Friday it had endorsed the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Canada’s most recent positioning during UN debates on indigenous peoples rights has left one of the main players with the commission delving into the dark history of residential schools wondering if he can ever reconcile with this country.
An elite British Columbia private school is facing a human rights complaint from an Indian residential school survivor who alleges the institution did little after she faced a racist barrage from a manager who said “all Indians are dirty filthy pigs.”
APTN National News Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued an historic apology to survivors of residential…
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