TRC aims to educate Canadian public
One of the mandates of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is to educate Canadians about the history and legacy of residential schools.
One of the mandates of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is to educate Canadians about the history and legacy of residential schools.
Conservative Senator Marjory LeBreton needs to clarify what she meant when she said that embattled Algonquin Senator Patrick Brazeau was “an experiment gone wrong” given recent revelations the Canadian government experimented on First Nation people during the Indian residential school era, according to a Liberal First Nation Senator.
The work Calgary lawyer David Blott did with Indian Residential School survivors is being reviewed by his peers.
Many Aboriginal people have experienced the pain of being separated from their families whether because of residential schools, foster care or adoption.
A Manitoba First Nation organization is slamming the Canadian Museum of Human Rights for refusing to use the term “genocide” in the title of an exhibit on Canada’s policies toward Indigenous people over the past century.
The nutritional experiments conducted in First Nation communities and in Indian residential schools were not the only example where Canada’s Indigenous population faced treatment as “guinea pigs,” academic research shows.
The Harper government has invoked cabinet confidence to prevent the release of documents associated with a pending court application to include a sanatorium under the Indian residential school settlement agreement, a document shows.
The commission created to delve into the dark history of residential schools has been in possession of documents related to nutritional experiments conducted on First Nations people for at least three years, according to Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt’s office.
It was late fall in 2005 when Alma Jane Bruyere appeared at the door of her grandson’s house in Fort Frances, Ont., carrying in her left hand a lawyer’s letter stating she had qualified for compensation for the abuse she faced while attending an Indian residential school.