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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 neglected part of the country’s history. But it’s just the beginning. The Truth and Reconciliatio...

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...

"I'm simply doing my job," said O'Connor. "But I really appreciate the recognition."  He said he was "stunned" to find out he was receiving the award, though he doesn't see himself as a whistleblower, rather an advocate.  O'Connor, 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. O'Connor said he started to notice that a disproportionate number of people were getting both rare and common cancers.  Elder Alice Rigney said people would talk about the health issues at a community level, but O'Con...

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 Atlantic Canada from the Mi’kmaq perspective. In the 1980s, Paul brought to light scalp proclamations iss...