Exploring Theme: "Govt. Funding Commitments"

APTN News: Canada’s special interlocutor for missing children, unmarked graves and burial sites says the federal government needs to ensure funding for searches is both sustainable and long-term. “I have raised this with the government – both in my interim report and over the last two years – that there has to be sustainable funding...

Majority say Canada should do more to recognize legacy of residential schools: pollclose video WATCH: Majority say Canada should do more to recognize legacy of residential schools Global News: Residential school survivors say the federal government is keeping the truth about those institutions in the dark by cutting back on funding for records and ground...

APTN News: Two First Nations in northern Ontario have joined the growing opposition to the Trudeau government’s decision to slash funding available to communities pursuing searches for unmarked graves on the sites of former residential schools. Last month, it was announced funding available to communities for these searches would be reduced from $3 million to...

At least 20 students died at the former Chooutla school in Carcross, Yukon. Photo: The Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre, University of British Columbia  Warning: This article contains details that may be distressing to some readers. The Indian Residential School Survivors Society operates a 24-hour crisis line at 1 (866) 925-4419. APTN News:...

Dozens gathered on Parliament Hill Monday to protest the government’s $500,000 funding cap CBC Indigenous: Diane Hill was admitted to the Mohawk Institute Residential School in 1963, only ten days after her seventh birthday.  She told CBC News she remembers her first day at the school clearly. At breakfast, she saw the school’s house mother...

NationTalk: Treaty One Territory, Winnipeg – The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) expresses profound disappointment and outrage following a decision from the federal government to reduce funding for the investigation and memorialization of unmarked graves at former Indian Residential Schools. While the government claims it is waiting for the final report from the Independent Special Interlocutor...