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Incoming GG Mary Simon will be moving into Rideau Hall — unlike her predecessor

Governor general-designate Mary Simon plans to move into Rideau Hall, unlike her predecessor Julie Payette — the first governor general since Confederation to...

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Hundreds died during B.C.’s heat dome. Who is responsible for deaths caused by extreme heat?

Over the course of B.C.’s heat dome, 719 people died suddenly — triple the number of deaths that would normally occur in the province...

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Orange Shirt Day ‘not approved’ for military members honouring residential school survivors

WARNING: This story contains distressing details. A top Canadian Armed Forces official last fall ordered soldiers not to wear orange to honour Indigenous...

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Be vulnerable and examine Catholic Church’s residential school past, Manitoba pastor urges

WARNING: This story contains distressing details. Some Manitoba Catholics are calling on church leadership to atone for their wrongs in light of the...

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Why retrieving former residential school records has proved so difficult

The discovery of potentially hundreds of unmarked graves near former residential schools in B.C. and Saskatchewan has prompted calls for the Catholic Church, which...

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‘Where is their soul?’: Inside the failed push to make Catholic Church pay for its residential school abuses

Residential school survivor Rick Daniels and his wife, Judy Greyeyes, live in a small apartment just a few kilometres from Saskatoon’s towering $28.5-million Holy...

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‘Ashamed of my faith’: Some Catholics struggle after discovery of unmarked graves at residential schools

WARNING: This story contains distressing details. The discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential schools in Saskatchewan and British Columbia has...

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Why criminal charges for deaths at residential schools would be unprecedented — and enormously complex

Cowessess Chief Cadmus Delorme said he is treating the site of 751 unmarked graves at the former Marieval Indian Residential School “like a crime scene.”...

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Priest under fire after sermon on the ‘good done’ by Catholic church on residential schools

A Mississauga, Ont., priest is under fire after a sermon referencing the “good done” by the Roman Catholic Church in residential schools, saying some...

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Quebec government, Catholic oblates still haven’t delivered key residential school records

WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing. As First Nations in Quebec plan possible searches of former residential school sites,...

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The news from Kamloops shook this country. Will it change anything?

“Canadians are waking up,” Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde told Rosemary Barton Live this weekend. “Governments are waking up.” That awakening...

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Ontario health guidance downplays aerosol spread of COVID-19. Critics say this puts lives at risk

More than a year since she nearly died of COVID-19, registered nurse Rubina Khan is still not sure how she got infected, but...

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Sask. commits $2M for searches of residential school sites for unmarked graves

WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing. The Saskatchewan government has committed $2 million to support searches of former residential school...

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N.S. curriculum asks students to list pros, cons of residential schools

A Mi’kmaw student says she was saddened and hurt to see racist stereotypes about Indigenous people included in her Grade 10 English correspondence course,...

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Burnaby School District apologizes for exam asking how First Nations benefited from colonial relationships

The superintendent of the Burnaby School District has issued an apology after a question on a Grade 9 social studies test asked students to...

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Renewed calls for Pope to visit Sask. to apologize for residential schools after 2017 effort failed

For a brief period in 2016, Chief Felix Thomas allowed himself to believe that Pope Francis would come to Saskatchewan. “We were very...

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