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Unmarked graves on Canada Day Posted : 2021-06-30 17:03 Updated : 2021-06-30 18:21 [PAP20210531077601055] Shoes line the edge of the Centennial Flame on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada's capital, in memory of the 215 children whose remains were found at the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School at Tk'emlups te Secwepemc First Nation in Kamloops, British Columbia, May 30. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP) By Jon Dunbar Canada Day is here again, but this year, many Canadians aren't in the mood for celebrating. Not while the news is still ...

Canada’s Indigenous services minister has asked Pope Francis to issue a formal apology for the role the Catholic Church played in Canada’s residential school system after the remains of 215 children were located at what was once the country’s largest such school. Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation in British Columbia said the remains of 215

Are we finally going to come to grips with what we have done to Indigenous people? Will we maintain our horror and anger that 215 children were buried in an…

The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate ran about 47 per cent of Canada's residential schools, including the one in Kamloops. They have refused to release…

‘More people were involved than we would like to believe’ Re: Why so many children died at Indian Residential Schools , Tristin Hopper, May 29 I write from a position of sorrow, yet little surprise. As a Secwepemc person who walked the grounds as a guide in 1999 at the Secwepemc Museum, which is adjacent the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, I shared with visiting tourists the horrific stories of the school, including the numerous child...