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...

Percy Onabigon was 6 when taken from Long Lake #58 First Nation in northern Ontario CBC News: Family members who have been fighting for years to repatriate the remains of their loved one who was put in a residential school in Thunder Bay, Ont., say they’ve been denied federal funding because he died when he was...

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...

Federal money for community search projects is being capped at $500,000 per year CBC News: Officials with the federal government told organizations and community leaders responsible for searches for missing children and unmarked burials at residential school sites Thursday their funding is being capped at $500,000 per year. That cap is substantially less than previous...

Survivors’ Secretariat lead says what government is offering is 14% of what they had before CBC Indigenous: An organization leading efforts to investigate the Mohawk Institute residential school in Brantford, Ont., says it will be forced to cancel plans for a memorial park and other projects after learning its funding will be dramatically reduced. The Survivors’ Secretariat had been waiting...