Exploring Stakeholder: "Government of Canada"

Kimberly Murray issues 42 ‘obligations’, seeks 20-year probe Warning: This report refers to residential schools and may be disturbing for some readers. Help is available by calling the Residential School Survivor Support line at 1-866-925-4419 APTN News: After two years of investigation, Canada’s special interlocutor on residential school gravesites says the work is only beginning....

Indigenous Services Canada has posted data about former residential schools  The former Chooutla Indian Residential School in Carcross, Yukon. Photo: National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation  APTN News: The federal government says it is making some new information available about old residential schools. On Friday, Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) launched an interactive mapping tool and...

The completed ground-penetrating radar surveys in B.C. are the first steps in a complex process CBC Indigenous: The ʕaaḥuusʔath (Ahousaht) First Nation released findings this week from the first phase of its search for missing children who attended two residential schools in its territory in B.C. They are one of several First Nations and Indigenous...

NationTalk: Background Information The Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burials Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools, Kimberly Murray, was appointed in June 2022 with a two-year mandate.  She is mandated to deliver a Progress Update Report (available at www.osi-bis.ca), an Interim Report, in June 2023, and a Final Report with...

Summary Report of the National Gathering on Unmarked Burials: Supporting the Search and Recovery of Missing Children: Sept. 12-14, 2022 NationTalk: The first National Gathering, held in Treaty 6 Territory and the homelands of the Métis Nation in September 2022, was an important beginning to support knowledge sharing amongst Indigenous communities and organizations leading this recovery work. I...

Ottawa, ON — Unceded Traditional Territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg Nation – Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada and the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation Thousands of First Nations, Inuit and Métis children never returned home from residential schools. Many were buried in gravesites that are unrecorded, unmarked and unprotected. Today, the Honourable Marc...

National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) and the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC) at UBC – NCTR and IRSHDC re calling on the federal government to work in collaboration with residential school Survivors and Indigenous governments to establish a national framework for investigation and protection of burial sites, consistent with the...

Toronto Star – The federal government announced that they will create a national advisory committee, made up of archeology, forensic, pathology and mental health experts, to advise Indigenous communities and the government about the work to find and identify the children. “They will evaluate federal laws, policies and practices surrounding unmarked and undocumented graves and...