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Canada’s Northwest Territories: Former Métis leader says day school settlement forms ‘misleading’

Anna Desmarais, CBC News
Posted: Monday, June 15, 2020 at 12:48 — Last Updated: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 10:13
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A former N.W.T. Métis Council president alleges that day school settlement forms are “misleading” survivors away from the rightful money they deserve.

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

Indigenous children who died in residential school commemorated in Quebec

Jamie Pashagumskum, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 at 15:59 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 13:05
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A moving and sombre ceremony held Monday at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., near Ottawa, included the

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Canada General Society Society (Canada) 

National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation archives added to UNESCO world register

Lenard Monkman, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, September 12, 2019 at 13:50 — Last Updated: Friday, September 13, 2019 at 10:12
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The collection of archives, personal stories and photos of residential school survivors at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) General 

Non-fiction book about inuk residential school survivor from Atlantic Canada attracts readers in Poland

Katie Breen, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 at 09:58 — Last Updated: Friday, August 2, 2019 at 09:37
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Poland is half a world away from the legacy of residential schools, but to the author of a new book

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Survey in northern city asks parents: should O Canada be sung in schools?

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 09:56 — Last Updated: Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 09:58
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The public school authority in Iqaluit, Nunavut is looking into whether O Canada should be sung at its four schools.

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

First Nation in northwestern Canada ponders what to do with residential school site

Mike Rudyk, CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 at 15:07 — Last Updated: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 at 15:10
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It was a school reunion — but not the celebratory kind. Students who attended Chooutla Indian Residential School in Carcross,

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

10 years sober: Indigenous woman in northern Quebec shares impacts of alcohol in video

Susan Bell and Cheryl Wapachee, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, January 10, 2019 at 14:05
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Some of Carol-Ann Tanoush’s earliest memories of growing up in northern Quebec revolve around alcohol. “[It was] loud music, screaming

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Canada Culture Culture (Canada) General News 

Notable book recommendations from across northern Canada

Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic @arctic_eq
Posted: Friday, November 16, 2018 at 16:06
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The First Nations Book Fair (Kwahiatonhk: Salon du livre des Premières Nations) gets underway in the Canadian province of Quebec November

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Canada General News Society Society (Canada) 

Student in Arctic Canada sits during national anthem to ‘make a statement’ about residential school curriculum

CBC News
Posted: Monday, October 22, 2018 at 15:51 — Last Updated: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 at 15:03
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A 12-year-old student in Iqaluit, in Canada’s east-Arctic, says he ended up in the principal’s office after he sat during

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General Photo Galleries Russia Society Society (Russia) 

PHOTO REPORT: Tundra children return from school

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 17:18
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Nenets children staying at boarding schools in Naryan-Mar throughout the semester, got a helicopter transport back this week to their

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General Society Society (Sweden) Sweden 

Sami abused in Sweden’s church-run schools

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 16:35 — Last Updated: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 20:59
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A newly published collection of stories from the Sami community examines the often painful history of the lives of young Sami

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Wide shot of the Centennial Flame with the Parliament building behind
The Parliament of Canada is the federal legislature of Canada, seated at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, and is composed of three parts: the Monarch, the Senate, and the House of Commons. Photo: La Presse canadienne / Adrian Wyld

Inuit push for land protection with focus on social economy

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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