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Canada’s special interlocutor on unmarked graves and missing children says despite the “well-documented reality” of those deaths, some Canadians have made a concerted effort to attack the truths of survivors, Indigenous families and communities. NDP MP Leah Gazan introduced a private member’s bill last month that seeks to criminalize residential school denialism, but the Liberal […]
More than 150,000 Indigenous children were forced to attend residential schools, the last of which closed in 1996. An estimated 6,000 children died in the schools, though experts say the actual number could be much higher. Many survivors who testified at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission shared stories of abuse in those institutions that were […]