Day school settlement has paid out $5.7B in claims. A Supreme Court petition says survivors were shortchanged

A Cree survivor of the federal Indian day school system is asking Canada’s top court to intervene in a multibillion-dollar settlement agreement amid allegations survivors have been shortchanged and retraumatized by the compensation process, CBC News has learned…

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Trial begins for man charged in B.C. residential school march incident

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 […]

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Parks Canada to install plaque at Old Government House site about residential school history

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…

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Proposed class-action lawsuit aims to compensate children of residential school survivors

A new class-action lawsuit is being proposed to compensate children of residential school survivors for inter-generational trauma, APTN News has learned. Saskatchewan lawyer Tony Merchant filed the statement of claim in Federal Court Wednesday. The claim still needs to be authorized by a judge to proceed, which could…

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