UNDRIP not likely to apply retroactively, Bennett says in Labrador talking circle
Carolyn Bennett, the minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations says when the Liberals adopt UNDRIP into law it will not be retroactive.
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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.
Innu Nation says it will refuse Trudeau’s Labrador residential school apology
The Innu Nation says it will not accept an apology from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for Canada’s role in the residential school system in Labrador APTN News has been told.
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.
Inuk leader finds reconciliation around the Muskrat Falls table
After years of conflict over the Muskrat Falls hydro project in Labrador, an Inuk leader is finally at the table negotiating an agreement with the crown corporation in charge of it.
A look at the Muskrat Falls ‘boondoggle’ in pictures
APTN News When announced in 2012, former premier Kathy Dunderdale said the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric…
Inquiry does nothing to protect people living downstream from Muskrat Falls dam says land protector
A spokesperson for the land protectors in Labrador says the inquiry called Monday into the financial deal that shaped the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project, it will not protect the people who live downstream from the project.
Labrador government, U.S. museum given cultural repatriation award for returning Inuit remains
The Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK) has awarded the Nunatsiavut government in Labrador and Chicago’s Field Museum with a cultural repatriation award for returning Inuit bodies that had been dug up and taken for scientific study.
