O’Toole walks back ‘reprehensible’ comments on residential schools
The leader of the Conservative Party refuses interview requests from APTN News to respond to comments
Jamie Pashagumskum
Originally from the Cree Nation of Chisasibi on the eastern coast of James Bay, Quebec, Jamie has lived in Ottawa since 2015. Trained in journalism at Carleton University, he has worked as a freelance print journalist and as a writer/researcher for the Cree unit of CBC North out of Montreal. Jamie was hired as the reporter/correspondent for the Ottawa bureau in October 2019.
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Five years to the day the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) issued its final report,…
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Canada on track for 12,000 cases daily by January
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Bannock bus delivering meals to people of Ottawa
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Help coming to pandemic-hit First Nations as the number of cases grows
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