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almost 2 years ago
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A legacy of sorrow, a duty of care: Canada’s new pointperson on missing Indigenous children and u...

Given a wide mandate by the federal government to seek input and consider a new legal framework, Kimberly Murray caut...

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about 2 years ago
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This First Nations mother says she wants to know how her infant son’s leg was broken at a Saskatc...

The hospital says it can’t provide information publicly. The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, meanwhile, i...

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over 2 years ago
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A new online encyclopedia will be a hub of Indigenous teachings

Debby Wilson Danard and family members are launching Indigipedia in January 2022 — just one example of how Indigenous...

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almost 3 years ago
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How this First Nations educator is working to bring the truth of Indigenous lives to Canadian tex...

Linda Isaac is the national director of Indigenous education, equity and inclusion at Nelson, and has been helping th...

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almost 3 years ago
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This fight over compensation for First Nation kids has been raging for 14 years. On Monday it’s b...

The Trudeau government wants to overturn a decision by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ordering compensation to Fi...

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almost 3 years ago
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Opinion | Grab the guilty souls who ran residential schools before they die and find out what the...

Here’s what gets me: if you were allowed to treat small Indigenous children brutally in a white school, what did they...

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almost 3 years ago
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‘Follow the money’: New report explores pathways to reparations for Indigenous people

“Cash Back,” a new report by the Yellowhead Institute, details how the dispossession of Indigenous land laid the foun...

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about 3 years ago
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Elsipogtog First Nation’s win in the Kraft Hockeyville competition is ‘an unbelievable feeling’

Elsipogtog becomes the first First Nation community to win the annual Canadian competition, just weeks after two memb...

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about 3 years ago
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‘These young people were treated like pieces of furniture:’ Province under fire for decision to a...

Some of the children — who are between the ages of 12 and 17 — were transferred hundreds of kilometres away from thei...

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over 3 years ago
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Erin O’Toole walks back controversial comments about residential schools

Erin O’Toole is walking back controversial comments he made about Canada’s residential school system after being accu...

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over 3 years ago
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How an Indigenous land-based learning approach to STEM could help students across Canada

The InSTEM program aims to connect students to STEM through traditional Indigenous teachings. Amid the COVID-19 pande...

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over 3 years ago
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Toronto police make fresh appeal in search for woman who went missing 28 years ago

Gloria Jean Abotossaway, known as Marty, was 27 years old when she was last seen on Feb. 14, 1992. A man was killed a...

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