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The last of Canada's 139 residential schools for indigenous children closed in 1998. Most have been torn down, but the Muskowekwan residential school in Saskatchewan still stands. Its windows ...
Brian Normand spent only a couple years—between the ages of five and six—at St. Charles Day Residential School in Manitoba, Canada, in the early 1960s, but he still feels the effects of that ...
When the whistleblower broke the news that hundreds of Indigenous children were dying from the “criminal disregard” of the Canadian government, the story was denied by the government, the ...
The Woodland Cultural Centre in Brantford, Ont., will also be hosting Canada's longest-running contemporary Indigenous juried art show opening for National Indigenous Peoples Day this weekend.
More than 150,000 Indigenous children were forced to attend residential schools, the last of which closed in 1996. An estimated 6,000 children died in the facilities.
Three years after controversy erupted across Canada and internationally over “mass graves” allegedly located near the residential schools for Indigenous children that once operated in Canada ...
Canada’s residential schools were based on similar facilities in the United States, where Catholic and Protestant denominations operated more than 150 boarding schools between the 19th and 20th ...
On February 12, 2025, Parks Canada announced the designation of the Kamloops, B.C. Indian Residential School as a national ...
The Native Women's Association of Canada president reflects on July 1 as a time of celebration, but also a chance to confront ...
tonight, we’re bringing you a heartbreaking update on a long-standing tragedy in canada. a new coroner’s report has uncovered 220 additional deaths at the notorious indian residential schools in ...