A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
The federal government’s decision to impose a cap for residential school searches across the country has many angered and disappointed. Residential Schools were used to assimilate Indigenous Peoples into settler society, often run by the Catholic Church, with support from the federal government. Communities could previously receive $3 million per year through the Residential Schools […]
Some residential school survivors and families in the N.W.T. are criticizing a change to federal funding for searches of former residential school sites. The federal government is also facing backlash after it announced last week it would put a $500,000 annual cap on future searches. Previously, communities could get up to $3 million per year from the Residential Schools Missing Children […]
Indigenous peoples continue to struggle to access complete and timely records about Indian Residential Schools, according to a new report by the Senate standing committee on Indigenous Peoples. The report, Missing Records, Missing Children, was released Thursday and includes 11 recommendations to improve access to residential school records, including for the Canadian government to compel […]
The federal government is being slammed for a “devastating” cut to funding for unmarked grave searches near former residential schools. The unexpected cap on funds was revealed last week. “It’s been devastating for us,” said Laura Arndt, secretariat lead of the Survivors’ Secretariat, an organization overseeing the survivor-led search for unmarked graves of children who […]
