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.

MASKWACIS, AB — Pope Francis issued a historic apology Monday for the Catholic Church's cooperation with Canada's "catastrophic" policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced ...

The discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at an Indian residential school in Canada in 2021 was just the catalyst for “Sugarcane.” Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, the filmmakers ...

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 ...

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 ...