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Doctor who blew whistle on atrocities of residential schools honoured in Ottawa

WARNING: This story contains distressing details. One hundred years ago, the former chief medical health inspector of what was then known as Canada’s Indian Affairs department walked through the doors of a publishing house in Ottawa. He carried a manuscript called A National Crime. It was published in 1922 detailing the appalling and …

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CBE considers transitioning schools on modified calendar to traditional calendar next September

The Calgary Board of Education is considering transitioning schools on the modified calendar to the traditional calendar next school year, and it wants to hear what families who have kids attending these schools think. Celeste Watamanuk has two kids attending CBE schools, but their schedules are totally different.  Her eldest …

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Free legal aid now available to all Black students in Ontario schools

Haweya Farah’s family is in a dispute with her 10-year-old brother’s Ottawa-area school and its school board, Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario (CEPEO).  The fifth grader has been in a specialized-language program without the consent of his parents, Farah said. Often families like Farah’s don’t know where …

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Students, schools gearing up for first in-person orientation since COVID-19 halted events

As the countdown to the first day of school begins, post-secondary institutions in Canada are getting ready to host their first fully in-person orientation week for incoming students — a rite of passage that was postponed for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For Maddie Fines, a first-year student at …

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Some parents, teachers want stricter guidelines around COVID in schools this fall

As thousands of children across British Columbia return to school in a few days, some parents and teachers say they want to make sure minimizing COVID-19 risk is still a priority. Although the Omicron BA.5 wave peaked in early August according to the the B.C. COVID-19 modelling group, many British Columbians are set to get their fourth dose …

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Pope Francis asks for ‘forgiveness in the name of the church’ for abuses at residential schools

Pope Francis said on Wednesday he felt the pain of survivors of Canada’s residential school system and he asked for “forgiveness in the name of the church” for the role many of its members played in abusing children and attempting to erase Indigenous cultures. The pope dedicated his talk at …

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Pope says genocide took place at Canada’s residential schools

WARNING: This story contains distressing details While the word genocide wasn’t heard in any of Pope Francis’s addresses during a week-long trip to Canada, on his flight back to Rome, he said everything he described about the residential school system and its forced assimilation of Indigenous children amounts to genocide. …

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Day school survivors worry they will be left out of whatever apology Pope makes for residential schools

WARNING: This story contains distressing details. Margaret Swan’s voice becomes strained as she shares her experience at the Indian day school where she spent five years of her life. “There was so much wrong. So many wrongs done in those schools,” said Swan, a member of the Lake Manitoba First …

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Sask. government under fire for funding independent schools run by anti-LGBTQ churches

Amid Pride celebrations across Saskatchewan, experts are raising concern over the provincial government’s decision to boost funding for certain independent schools that are operated by churches with anti-LGBTQ policies. Last month, the province formally announced the 21 independent and four “historical” schools in Saskatchewan that will receive $17.5 million in …

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A St. John’s garden is being designed to honour survivors of residential schools

WARNING: This story contains distressing details. Residential school survivor Emma Reelis is standing in a St. John’s garden that is overgrown with weeds as she recounts the pain of what happened at schools in Newfoundland and Labrador. There was physical, sexual and psychological abuse. Children lost their languages and cultures. “I can only speak …

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