A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
A new documentary released about the Île-à-la-Crosse Residential School is being called powerful and eye opening. The Indigenous Geographic documentary Waiting for Justice chronicles the lives and struggles of Île-à-la-Crosse (ILEX) Residential School survivors. The short film has been named the 2024 Best History Film…
A trial began Monday (March 4) for a Deroche man charged after several people reported being struck by a pickup truck during a residential school march in Mission in June 2022. Richard Albert Manuel was charged in November 2022 with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle. The trial in Abbotsford provincial court began in the […]
The Town of Battleford council has given its consent to a request from Parks Canada to have a plaque installed at the site of the former Old Government House, south of Battleford, to identify it as the former site of the Battleford Industrial School, a residential school that operated from 1883-1914…
A Senate committee examining barriers to the release of records of deaths at residential schools heard Tuesday that federal departments and agencies should make information disclosure processes more accessible and informal. “We heard that the privacy and information regimes cannot work if the government itself does not believe in them,” said Sen. Brian Francis, chair […]
