Words are sometimes slippery, especially in law and politics. This is not always a bad thing, because ambiguous language sometimes resolves conflict, by allowing people to maintain face while they compromise....
First Nations, Métis and Inuit today are marking the third anniversary of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's June 11, 2008, formal apology to their peoples for Canada's 150-year-long ...
A legal victory by the Windigo First Nations Council before the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario has gotten two Ontario schools added to the official list of residential school...
A British Columbia First Nations woman is spearheading a multimillion-dollar class-action lawsuit against Canada’s government for handing over responsibility for Indian child welfa...
Former students from Canada’s residential schools system who are eligible for compensation under the Indian Residential School Settlement are nearing the deadline to apply for a Co...
More than 2,500 people are packed into a three-day conference under way in Winnipeg that is exploring the generational effects of Canada’s residential schools system on the aborigi...
Germany. South Africa. Guatemala. Argentina. Serbia/Croatia. Each of these countries has been through its share of painful history, repression and attempts at redemption...
Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), charged in 2008 with a mandate to publicize what took place in Indian Residential Schools from the 1870s until 1996, will hold n...