Actions and Commitments: Call to Action # 75

Exploring Stakeholder: "Government of Canada"

Share to:

Updates on this page: 18 (Filtered by Indigenous Group "Inuit")
 

October 29, 2024

Special interlocutor releases final residential school graves report
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....

October 17, 2024

MEDIA ADVISORY – Special Interlocutor to Release Final Report and the Indigenous-led Reparations Framework for Missing and Disappeared Children and Unmarked Burials
NationTalk: GATINEAU, QC, Oct. 16, 2024– The Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools, Kimberly R. Murray, will release her Final Report and the Indigenous-led Reparations Framework at the 7th National Gathering on Unmarked Burials. This event will take place on October 29, 2024, at the Hilton Lac-Leamy...

July 3, 2024

The Government of Canada supports the Woodland Cultural Centre in Brantford
NationTalk: Canadian Heritage – Today, Lisa Hepfner, Member of Parliament (Hamilton Mountain), on behalf of the Honourable Pascale St-Onge, Minister of Canadian Heritage, announced funding of more than $1.4 million for the Woodland Cultural Centre in Brantford. The funding marks a significant investment in the cultural landscape of the region. It provides support through the...

June 3, 2024

Kimberly Murray’s mandate extended into the fall
Canada’s special interlocutor for unmarked graves at former residential schools, Kimberly Murray says the fight is not over to obtain records needed to answer “hard questions,” including who the missing children were, how they died and where they are buried. Murray speaks at a news conference in Ottawa June 8, 2022. Photo: Justin Tang/The Canadian...

April 16, 2024

Budget 2024: Addressing the Legacy of Residential Schools
Residential school denialism has severe impacts on Survivors and descendants of Survivors. Such denialism seeks to erase the ongoing trauma and harm that Indigenous Peoples continue to face because of the legacy of residential schools. It further burdens Survivors and their descendants, whose mental health, well-being, and economic opportunities are still hampered today by thisshameful...

February 17, 2023

International Commission on Missing Persons to undertake outreach and engagement sessions with Indigenous communities on unmarked burial sites
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada: Taking care: We recognize this news release may contain information that is difficult for many and that our efforts to honour Survivors and families may act as an unwelcome reminder for those who have suffered hardships through generations of government policies that were harmful to Indigenous Peoples. The National...

February 7, 2023

Ottawa spending $2-million for international commission to offer advice on unmarked graves
The Globe and Mail: Ottawa is spending $2 million for an international organization to provide Indigenous communities with options for identifying possible human remains buried near former residential school sites. The office of Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller said in a statement Tuesday it is signing a technical agreement with the International Commission on Missing...

October 21, 2022

First Nations, governments sign memorandum of understanding for Bringing Our Children Home initiative
Initiative searching for missing children who attended Pelican Lake Indian Residential School CBC: An initiative aimed at locating missing children who attended Pelican Lake Indian Residential School took a step forward this week, with First Nations and government signing a memorandum of understanding in Thunder Bay, Ont. The Bikiiwewinig Nindawaashishiiminaanak Initiative, or Bringing Our Children...

July 20, 2022

Government of Canada and NCTR announce National Advisory Committee on Residential Schools Missing Children and Unmarked Burials
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...

June 8, 2022

Kimberly Murray appointed Special Interlocutor
CBC: Kimberly Murray, a Mohawk woman originally from Kanehsatake in Quebec, has been appointed special interlocutor to co-ordinate the government’s response to the unmarked graves that have been identified at a number of former residential school sites. Murray comes to the job with experience with this sort of work because, for the last year, she has...

May 17, 2022

Govt of Canada update on actions to help Indigenous communities to respond to and heal from impacts of residential schools
Crown and Indigenous Services Canada and Northern Affairs Canada : On May 16: the Honourable Marc Miller, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations; the Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Indigenous Services; the Honourable Pablo Rodriguez, Minister of Canadian Heritage; the Honourable David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada; the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of...

April 27, 2022

Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Funding Recipients
Government of Canada: The Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support funding launched in June 2021 to support Indigenous communities to locate missing children at Indian Residential Schools as identified in the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement. Funding is provided under the following components: National results: For full details on all 70 funding arrangement The list...

January 24, 2022

Six Nations of the Grand River
$10,259,9753 in funding over three years The Survivors’ Secretariat at Six Nations of the Grand River and Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, announced funding through the Residential Schools Missing Children – Community Support Funding program to assist with this important work.The Survivors’ Secretariat will coordinate with Survivors and engage with communities to locate, document, map, maintain...

January 17, 2022

Kamloops Residential School
Jan. 17, 2022: CBC – The leadership of Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc hopes to identify and locate missing children believed to be buried in unmarked graves. The federal government plans to transfer more than 875,000 records through a recently signed agreement with the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR), the archival repository for all of the material collected by the...

January 7, 2022

Williams Lake First Nation
CIRNA – $1,912,460 Williams Lake First Nation will undertake work related to burial sites associated with the former St. Joseph’s Mission Residential School. The community is currently completing a preliminary investigation that includes interviews with former students and their families, an initial geophysical survey, and the compilation of archival and photographic records related to the disappearances and...

December 16, 2021

Lac Seul First Nation
Sioux Lookout Bulletin – $1M funding for Lac Seul First Nation who will engage with 33 affiliated northern Ontario communities to establish cultural and spiritual protocols in working with Survivors, intergenerational Survivors, knowledge keepers and leaders to address the location, documentation, mapping, maintenance and commemoration/memorialization of burial sites associated with the former Pelican Lake Indian...

December 15, 2021

Cowassess First Nation
$703,230 funding over three years for the community’s Gravesite Reclamation Project. Survivors, intergenerational Survivors, knowledge keepers and leaders will continue the work that has already started on researching, commemorating, locating and identifying the gravesites of missing children. During the next three years, work will progress on research, archival and statement gathering, additional fieldwork, commemorative markers,...

June 22, 2021

Federation of Sovereign Indian Nations
Saskatchewan Federation of Sovereign Indian Nations = $4.88M (16 Indian Residential Schools) Research, knowledge gathering and the initial ceremonies related to the burial sites of children who never returned from residential schools to their Indigenous communities. The funding will also help communities gather the information necessary to guide appropriate ground penetrating radar work....
Filter This Page

chevron_rightby Indigenous Group


Explore Other Stakeholders