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 ...

At one time, it was the largest residential school in Canada with 500 students enrolled in the 1950s. The pope's apology is historic, but there is still frustration with the church.

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 ...

The Native Women's Association of Canada president reflects on July 1 as a time of celebration, but also a chance to confront ...

On February 12, 2025, Parks Canada announced the designation of the Kamloops, B.C. Indian Residential School as a national ...

Today, the city of Thunder Bay is proclaiming June 30th as "Indigenous Survivors Day" and hosting community events. Sixties Scoop survivor Troy Abromaitis said he created Indigenous Survivors Day to ...