Indigenous activist asks about Rana Bokhari’s legal work with survivors seeking compensation By Donna Carreiro, CBC News At 39, Rana Bokhari is the youngest person ever to lead the Manitoba Liberal Party. (CBC) Liberal Leader Rana Bokhari admits it was “harsh” to […]
By James Munson | Feb 24, 2016 5:51 pm | Assembly of First Nations national Chief Perry Bellegarde and his Chief of Staff Dale Leclair appear at Commons Aboriginal affairs committee on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016., to […]
THUNDER BAY – Momentum is building for the Day Scholars Class Proceeding. In addition to the original two Bands, twenty two other First Nations Bands have opted into the action and several more have committed to joining. The deadline for other […]
By Kathleen Martens APTN Investigates WINNIPEG – A veteran lawyer was found guilty of professional misconduct Tuesday for failing to properly represent a residential school survivor. Moses Okimaw was handed a reprimand and ordered to pay $3,000 towards the Law […]
Jorge Barrera APTN National News A residential school survivor was denied compensation for a rape she suffered as a 7-year-old child after federal government lawyers successfully argued the place of the attack did not qualify as a residential school because […]
“The worst ones were when serious abuse happened literally feet from the property line” SARAH ROGERS Inuit children from the western Arctic gather outside a residential school in this undated file photo. A dozen or so former students from […]
The federal government used a technical argument to disqualify an estimated 1,000 claims for compensation made by indigenous Canadians who were abused at Indian residential schools listed in the agreement negotiated to award them for their suffering. It is a […]
Requests for mandatory documents overwhelm hospitals, leave survivors in limbo By Martha Troian, CBC News Posted: Jun 09, 2014 5:00 AM ET Last Updated: Jun 09, 2014 12:19 PM ET Many former Indian residential school survivors have been unable to proceed with claims because […]
Port Alberni — Tseshaht First Nation has demanded a public apology from the federal government and a full disclosure of facts surrounding nutritional and medical experiments performed on children at the Alberni Indian Residential School beginning in the late 1940s. […]
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 is to uplift, aid, and inform readers who have been affected by the residential school system.
