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NOW Magazine How many Indigenous children died in Canada’s residential schools? The official death toll is 3,213, but there was no policy for the burial of children until seven decades after the schools were first established By Enzo DiMatteo Many Canadians are unaware of our history of residential schools. How many more? The discovery of the remains of 215 children at the former site of an Indian residential school in Kamloops, BC, has woken Canadians up to the horrors of a mostly n...

Many refuse to discuss why 215 Indigenous children were found in unmarked graves to begin with.

In November 1948, Rev. Fergus John O’Grady wrote Indigenous parents a letter in his role as pr...

"Im simply doing my job," said OConnor. "But I really appreciate the recognition."  He said he was "stunned" to find out he was receiving the award, though he doesnt see himself as a whistleblower, rather an advocate.  OConnor, who worked as a physician in Fort Chipewyan, said people in the community would tell him they were concerned about how sick people were getting. OConnor said he started to notice that a disproportionate number of people were getting both rare and common cancers.  El...

Year Ahead 2021 Burying Sir John A. Macdonald The first prime minister will no longer be put on a pedestal as the debate turns to what to put up in his place December 18, 2020 The head of a statue of Sir John A. MacDonald in Montreal, in August 2020 (Graham Hughes/CP) Mi’kmaq historian Daniel Paul believes that Sir John A. Macdonald’s days in the sun are numbered. Paul, 81, is the author of We Were Not the Savages, a landmark 1993 book that for the first time told the history of Atlanti...

A further 17.6 percent of those surveyed, said they are unable to access the online or digital rehabilitation programmes they had been offered instead. Almost 83 percent have had medical appointments cancelled due to Covid, and 49.3 percent say their health had worsened as a result of missing them. Pulmonary Fibrosis is an incurable and disabling disease where the lungs become scarred and breathing is increasingly difficult. The average survival is between three and five years. About 70,000 peo...

New research from a UK charity has found that lung rehabilitation programmes have been cancelled throughout the Covid-19 pandemic despite an expected rise in respiratory complications as a result of the virus. The survey of UK patients and carers, conducted by the Pulmonary Fibrosis Trust, reports that the cancellation of treatments has affected more than one third (82.9 per cent) of pulmonary fibrosis patients. Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is an incurable disease that causes scarring of the l...