Proposed class-action lawsuit aims to compensate children of residential school survivors
Lawyer feels it’s time to seek redress for what Indigenous leaders refer to as the ongoing effects of inter-generational trauma.
Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement
Probing the past: residential school secrets and archival challenges
How do we balance privacy legislation with the public’s right to know?
Deal freeing Catholic entities from $25M campaign for residential schools released
Stephen Harper’s Conservative government agreed to “forever discharge” Catholic entities from raising $25 million for residential school survivors and paid their legal bill.
Audit needed to find treaty payments that went to schools rather than residential school survivors
A founding member of the Children of Shingwauk residential survivor group and longtime member of…
Suspension given to B.C. lawyer for professional misconduct ‘grossly inadequate’, says disciplinary committee chair
In a joint submission, Stephen Bronstein admitted to mishandling some Indian residential school compensation claims
St. Anne’s residential school document fight to stay in Ontario, Appeal Court rules
Justice Paul Perell recused himself from hearing the case and ordered the move to B.C.
NDP criticizes government after family of residential school survivor denied compensation
Brett Forester and Todd Lamirande APTN News Today the NDP demanded the federal government “guarantee…
Thousands of residential school survivors can sue lawyer who ‘re-victimized’ them: Judge
A Calgary judge has certified a class-action lawsuit against a former residential school lawyer. “I…
Concerns growing about proposed day school settlement
Some things need the personal touch of a lawyer.