Grupos indígenas de Canadá exigen respuestas tras el descubrimiento de 215 niños enterrados en una escuela mercopress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mercopress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) - Indigenous groups in Canada are calling for a nationwide search for mass graves at residential school sites after the discovery of the remains of 215 children at one former school last week shocked the country. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday that searching for more mass graves was an important part of discovering the truth but did not make specific commitments. Tk emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation announced last week they had found the remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, buried at the site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School, once Canada s largest such school. Between 1831 and 1996, Canada s residential school system forcibly separated children from their families, subjecting them to abuse, malnutrition and rape in what the Truth and Reconciliation Commission tasked with investigating the system called cultural genocide in 2015. Last week s announcement sparked outrage, prompting flags to be flown a
Boats, planes, helicopters: Canada gears up to vaccinate remote indigenous communities By Moira Warburton
FILE PHOTO: Vials and medical syringe are seen in front of Moderna logo in this illustration
TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada’s indigenous communities have been prioritized for the COVID-19 vaccine but distributing it across difficult and remote terrain will be a challenge, as authorities deploy small planes and boats to ship the drug.
Canada approved drugmaker Moderna’s vaccine on Wednesday, which most indigenous communities are expected to use because it remains stable at 2-8 Celsius (36-46 Farenheit) for 30 days, unlike Pfizer’s, which needs to be stored at -70 degrees Celsius and is only stable for a few days after thawing.