Labrador preparing for long overdue apology
Some former residential school survivors in Labrador are preparing for Friday’s apology from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Happy Valley-Goose Bay for the harms done while they attended the schools.
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Long Inuit wait for residential school apology from prime minister ends Friday
Jimmy Tuttauk was working on the remote coast of northern Labrador when he first heard that Ottawa was settling with former students of residential schools.
Littlechild tells inquiry that violence against women and girls getting international attention
The grand chief of Treaty 6 territory, on which the Edmonton hearings of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Women and Girls took place, made a brief appearance on the final day of the hearings to offer encouragement to the commission and to the 75 witnesses who testified during the three-day session.
APTN Investigates: Indigenous people in Canada behind bars
At 52 years old, Dan Parlow has spent more than half his life, over 30…
AFN holds ‘national day of action’ on Parliament Hill to push child welfare change
APTN News The Assembly of First Nations is holding a national day of action Thursday…
APTN Investigates: Reliving Indian and Inuit Tuberculosis Sanatoriums
Gerald McIvor’s brother Michael was just four years old when he was sent off to Manitoba’s Ninette Tuberculosis Sanatorium in 1952.
Ottawa let Catholic Church off the hook for millions in residential school compensation
The source of an April 2016 Globe and Mail report outlining a mistake by federal government lawyers which allowed the Catholic Church to escape paying $21 million in obligations to the Residential School Settlement Agreement, now says that number is actually millions of dollars higher.
UBC subject of human rights complaint over handling of Furlong speech
It’s called the “Reconciliation Pole” but the ornate cedar marker at the University of British Columbia (UBC) is turning out to be anything but for one residential school survivor.
Newfoundland and Labrador residential school survivors to receive apology from Trudeau
The Canadian Press A lawyer for former residential school students excluded from a national apology…
