Actions and Commitments: Call to Action # 75

Exploring Theme: "Commitments to Residential Schools"

Updates on this page: 6 (Filtered by Stakeholder "Canada")
 

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...

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...

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...

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