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Hillary wants to experiment with lives of poor children?
Editor in Chief Posted On April 20, 2016


APRIL 17, 2016 DAUN KAUFFMAN Hillary Clinton spoke briefly, about a week ago, on a wide range of educational topics with Newsday editors on Long Island. The detailed, public video and transcript are posted HERE. Clinton claimed to support “National Standards” in […]


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Settlement
Ottawa called out on residential-school settlement shortfall
Editor in Chief Posted On April 18, 2016


GLORIA GALLOWAY OTTAWA — The Globe and Mail Published Monday, Apr. 18, 2016 9:26PM EDT Last updated Monday, Apr. 18, 2016 9:55PM EDT The federal government must pick up the tab for more than $20-million in compensation to survivors of Indian residential schools after […]


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Survivors
Legal misstep lets Catholics off hook for residential schools compensation
Editor in Chief Posted On April 18, 2016


  GLORIA GALLOWAY OTTAWA — The Globe and Mail Published Sunday, Apr. 17, 2016 10:06PM EDT A miscommunication by a federal lawyer allowed the Catholic Church to renege on its obligation to try to raise $25-million to pay for healing programs for the […]


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Opinion
Canadian media need to improve coverage of indigenous issues, report says
Editor in Chief Posted On April 16, 2016


Canadian newspapers do not devote enough resources to aboriginal issues, but recent focus on missing and murdered indigenous women a sign of change, says a new media monitoring report. RICHARD LAUTENS / TORONTO STAR Daniel Drache, senior research fellow at […]


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Art
New play addresses the ongoing trauma of residential schools
Editor in Chief Posted On April 16, 2016


The long road to reconciliation is explored in Tara Beagan and Andy Moro’s Reckoning Amanda Parris · CBC ArtsApril 15, 2016 PJ Prudat and Glen Gould in a promo still from Reckoning ( Andy Moro/ARTICLE 11) Although the new play Reckoning would […]


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Residential School
Change name of Davin School, Regina professor say
Editor in Chief Posted On April 14, 2016


Marc Spooner says he was ‘horrified’ by Nicholas Davin’s 1879 report on Indian education CBC News April 12, 2016 There’s a debate growing about whether Regina’s Davin School should change its name to something that doesn’t evoke the painful historical legacy […]


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Reconciliation
B.C. author challenges Canadians to sign up for TRC reading challenge
Editor in Chief Posted On April 12, 2016


Jennifer Manuel wants 1,000 people to pledge by National Aboriginal Day By Chantelle Bellrichard, CBC News Posted: Apr 11, 2016 9:01 PM ET Last Updated: Apr 11, 2016 9:01 PM ET Jennifer Manuel, from Duncan, B.C., launched an online campaign to get people to […]


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Survivors
Evidence on abuse at residential schools can be destroyed, court rules
Editor in Chief Posted On April 11, 2016


The chief adjudicator of the Independent Assessment Process (IAP) had argued the complete destruction of recordings, transcripts and decisions is the only way to protect privacy. KENNETH ARMSTRONG / THE CANADIAN PRESS Michael Cachagee, a 76-year-old Ontario residential school survivor […]


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Art
Our Voices, Our Stories
Editor in Chief Posted On April 10, 2016


Director Barbara Cranmer will be in attendance for both screenings: Saturday, April 23rd and Sunday, April 24th at 4 PM. Share this event to share the experience and discussion! —- ABOUT THE FILM Imagine for a moment, your six year […]


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Culture
Ideas from the Trenches – Undoing Linguicide
Editor in Chief Posted On April 8, 2016


Friday April 08, 2016    LISTEN TO FULL EPISODE 54:01  ​Lorena Fontaine is battling to revive aboriginal languages — languages that have been quashed and brought to the brink of extinction by Canada’s residential school system. She is completing her PhD […]


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Residential School
Residential school victim gets lenient sentence for burning girl 27 times
Editor in Chief Posted On April 7, 2016


GRAEME HAMILTON, NATIONAL POST FIRST POSTED: THURSDAY, APRIL 07, 2016 11:01 AM EDT | UPDATED: THURSDAY, APRIL 07, 2016 11:20 AM EDT Native children and nuns are seen in front of a residential school in Maliotenam, Que., circa 1950. (Library Archives of Canada) […]


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Youth
First Nations youth testify at student deaths inquest in Thunder Bay
Editor in Chief Posted On April 7, 2016


‘My culture really did save me,’ 20-year-old Shane Monague tells jurors By Jody Porter, CBC News Posted: Apr 07, 2016 6:30 AM ET Last Updated: Apr 07, 2016 6:30 AM ET ‘Our lives are at risk just by being Aboriginals,’ Shane Monague, 20, tells […]


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Settlement
Senator’s husband put $1.7M in offshore tax havens
Editor in Chief Posted On April 5, 2016


Lawyer Tony Merchant named in leaked data shared exclusively in Canada with CBC News Exclusive Fréderic Zalac • Alex Shprintsen • Zach Dubinsky and Harvey Cashore • CBC News April 4, 2013  A prominent Canadian lawyer, husband to a Liberal senator, […]


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Art
Tomson Highway Has A Surprisingly Positive Take On Residential Schools
Editor in Chief Posted On April 4, 2016


Tomson Highway is a Cree storyteller, so it’s fitting that the playwright, novelist, classical pianist and Order of Canada recipient’s bio begins like the opening line of a tale: “Tomson Highway was born in a snowbank on the Manitoba/Nunavut border […]


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Youth
REPORT: Native American Girls Have Highest Rate of Incarceration
Editor in Chief Posted On April 3, 2016


By Derrick Broze New statistics show that American Indian and Native Alaskan girls account for a disproportionate amount of the population in the juvenile justice system. According to the  U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, American Indian and […]


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Survivors
Majority of survivors remain Christians despite residential schools
Editor in Chief Posted On April 2, 2016


  One of the 94 recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into residential schools included the church’s reconciliation with Canada’s First Nations people. The church recently offered a commitment to reconciliation, one day shy of the March 31 deadline.     Listen here […]


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    Residential School Magazine: Dealing with all aspects of the residential school experience. Featuring stories from survivors, interviews with prominent First Nations and Native American people, and inspirational essays and narratives. Its general tone will be to uplift, aid, and inform readers who have been affected by the residential school system.


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