Lawyer who ripped off residential school survivors suspended
It’s news thousands of Indian Residential School survivors have been waiting for. Calgary lawyer David Blott has been suspended from practising by the Law Society of Alberta.
Indian Residential Schools
Winnipeg lawyers, form-filling company probed over handling of residential school claims
By Kathleen Martens APTN Investigates WINNIPEG –Two lawyers and a form-filling company are under investigation…
InFocus; Truth and Reconciliation Commission
In this edition we put the 7th and final national event of the Truth and…
Fading memory, fragmented records and the passage of time keep some residential school truths hidden forever
It was at about 3:30 p.m. on a Friday in January 1958 when the truck pulled up next to the Edmonton Indian Residential School with a coffin from the hospital.
TRC piecing fragments from history’s shadows to find the missing children
In the summer of 1920 Augustine Allen made a suicide pact with nine other boys who were attending St. Joseph’s Indian residential school in British Columbia.
Residential school survivors line up to tell their story to TRC
APTN National News Like at other TRC national events, survivors of Canada’s residential schools lined…
Province of Alberta puts residential school experience on education curriculum
APTN National News The province of Alberta announced today its education curriculum will now include…
Survivor Robert Cardinal opens up at TRC event
APTN National News Residential school survivor Robert Cardinal was one of dozens of people who…
Thousands of youth converge on Edmonton for final TRC event
APTN National News 2500 young people from across Alberta are in Edmonton to bear witness…