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Residential school survivors should decide fate of documents: FSIN
Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On May 26, 2017


Supreme Court hears diverse opinions on documents from Independent Assessment Process By Jason Warick, CBC News Posted: May 26, 2017 5:00 AM CT Last Updated: May 26, 2017 6:48 AM CT Residential school survivors must be consulted further about their records […]


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An ailing boy, a residential school infirmary and a father’s clandestine rescue mission
Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On May 25, 2017


This is one of the stories I carried as I read Gary Geddes’s new book, Medicine Unbundled: A Journey Through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care John Fox, shown here in his 60s, spent months alone each year at his […]


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Supreme Court to decide who owns the 38,000 stories of residential school survivors
Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On May 25, 2017


The courts say it is up to the survivors to decide what happens to the accounts of their experiences. But a coalition representing the survivors’ children and grandchildren wants to save the stories. Artist and founder of the Coalition to […]


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How Stanley Redcrow and First Nations activists reclaimed the Blue Quills Residential School
Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On May 11, 2017


For over 100 years, about 150,000 Indigenous children were taken from their homes and placed in boarding schools designed to assimilate them into Canadian settler society. The goal was — explicitly — to “kill the Indian in the child.” How to watch […]


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Stand For Truth: Protect Residential School Records
Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On May 2, 2017


We are the Coalition for the Preservation of Truth, whose members are representatives of both residential school survivors and intergenerational residential school survivors. The coalition is formed to advocate for the preservation of the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement – […]


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The healing game: Residential school survivors found salvation on and off the ice
Mel Cook Crate Posted On May 1, 2017


Residential school survivors found salvation on and off the ice at south Winnipeg Catholic school in the ’60s By: Randy Turner Posted: 04/28/2017 12:51 PM George Kakeway remembers he was wearing “raggedy old pants” and a summer jacket when his […]


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Douglas Todd: Residential school story becoming over-simplified, says chief
Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On April 25, 2017


DOUGLAS TODD More from Douglas Todd Published on: April 21, 2017 | Last Updated: April 21, 2017 4:55 PM PDT B.C. Chief Robert Joseph struggled for year after emerging from the residential school system, but he insists on viewing that […]


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Order of Ontario nominee Geraldine Robertson set to speak at reconciliation symposium
Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On April 19, 2017


By Barbara Simpson, Sarnia Observer Tuesday, April 18, 2017 11:26:53 EDT AM Marie Strapp, 90, of Grand Bend, looks at a photo she took of Geraldine Robertson at the former Mount Elgin Indian Industrial School in Muncey, Ont. Strapp, who […]


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Dear Senator Beyak… An open letter about how residential schools have affected me
Dani Lanouette Posted On April 11, 2017


My name is Danielle Lanouette, but I go by Dani. I’m an Anishinaabe woman living in Ottawa, Ontario. I’m writing to you, not as anyone affiliated with a political organization, but as the granddaughter of a residential school survivor. The […]


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After 50-year search, Inuk mother finds daughter’s grave 2,000 km from home
Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On April 11, 2017


Residential school student Marieyvonne Alaka died and was buried in Quebec By Jane Sponagle, CBC News Posted: Jul 17, 2016 5:45 AM CT Last Updated: Jul 18, 2016 7:42 AM CT In the only photo Marieyvonne Alaka’s family has of her, […]


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How Senator Murray Sinclair responds to why don’t residential school survivors just ‘get over it’
Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On April 6, 2017


  This special edition of The Current is a public forum held at the Museum of History in Gatineau, Que., across the river from Parliament Hill. The forum explored the work of the national inquiry into MMIWG and connected that […]


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A look back at Shingwauk Residential School
Eric P. Thisdale Posted On April 6, 2017


ERIC P-THISDALE·WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 2017 Shingwauk Residential School, Sault Ste. Marie, Eric Pouliot-Thisdale, The Eastern Door Last week having observed the “Pupils” from Kahnawake in the Spanish Ontario Residential School, this week we will look at those observed from December […]


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Sen. Beyak removed from Senate committee over residential school comments
Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On April 5, 2017


The Canadian Press Published Wednesday, April 5, 2017 6:41PM EDT OTTAWA – Conservative Sen. Lynn Beyak, who famously declared “some good” came out of Canada’s residential schools, has been removed from the Senate’s committee on aboriginal peoples. A spokesperson for […]


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Federal government withheld documents from residential school survivors, lawyer says
Mel Cook Crate Posted On March 24, 2017


Court hears arguments that many students didn’t receive proper compensation for the abuses they suffered. By JESSE WINTER Staff Reporter Fri., March 24, 2017 Edmund Metatawabin has gotten used to waiting. “We’re always the last ones when it comes to reconciliation and […]


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There was nothing ‘good’ about residential schools: Anglican Church of Canada
Marc P. Klijnsmit Posted On March 20, 2017


‘We have hung our heads in shame’: An open letter to Senator Lynn Beyak Monday, March 20th, 2017 Residential school survivor Joe George, right, of the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation, and elder Marie George embrace during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission […]


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‘I’m not a bad person:’ Recognizing impacts of childhood trauma in the justice system
Mel Cook Crate Posted On March 14, 2017


Psychologist says childhood abuse and neglect ‘not only cost the individual, they cost society’ By Curtis Mandeville, CBC News Posted: Mar 14, 2017 6:00 AM CT Last Updated: Mar 14, 2017 6:00 AM CT Michael Abel says childhood abuse fuelled his anger and rage […]


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