British Columbia’s provincial government is increasing its funding to help Indigenous communities repatriate ancestral remains and cultural objects from around the world. The government has announced it is contributing $500,000 to the B.C. Museums Association to provide a range of… »
Highlights / Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Senator Lynn Beyak apologizes, says posting racist letters was wrong
A Canadian senator, hailed by some as a defender of free speech and vilified by others as a racist, has apologized to her colleagues in the upper chamber for posting offensive letters on her official website and refusing to take… »
Ottawa and Blood Tribe formalize historic agreement
The Blood Tribe, residents of Canada’s largest reserve, will receive $150 million by the end of the summer to settle an historic claim that the federal government destroyed the tribe’s cattle industry over a century ago. Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn… »
New statutory holiday coming to honour residential school victims
Canada’s federal government is in the process of establishing a new statutory holiday to mark the country’s dark residential school history. Ottawa is currently consulting with Indigenous leaders to establish the date. The Globe and Mail reports two dates are… »
Indigenous, International, Politics, Society
Statue of Canada’s first prime minister is removed in Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, may be the most traditional of all Canadian cities, at least of those birthed when what was once called the British Empire ruled much of the world. People still take tea at the majestic… »
Environment & Animal Life, Indigenous
Nuclear waste management body strives for reconciliation with Indigenous Canadians
Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) was set up with one goal: to find a burial site for the country’s used nuclear fuel. But the Ontario-based non-profit organization says that while it’s looking for a suitable site to safely entomb… »
Missing and murdered indigenous women: from 1200 to 4000?
Missing and murdered aboriginal women were a neglected group in Canada for many years. Now preparations are underway for a national inquiry. One of the latest revelations is, that the total number of victims may be more in the range… »
Truth and Reconciliation Commission final report released
More than 3,200 aboriginal children attending Canada’s infamous Indian residential schools died and were often buried in unmarked graves, according to the final report from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which called the policy of forced assimilation “a cultural genocide.” The… »
Economy, Indigenous, International, Politics, Society
Truth and Reconciliation in education: a beginning
Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, was a massive undertaking emotionally, physically and psychologically for Canada’s aboriginal people’s. And it has opened the eyes of many non-aboriginal Canadians to the horrifying history and legacy of colonial attitudes and efforts to “take… »
Truth and Reconciliation Commission faces huge new pile of documents
With little more than a year to finish its report, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on the physical and emotional abuses of Indigenous children in Canada’s Indian Residential School system, is about to receive tens of thousands of boxes of more… »
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