Vatican officials visited three locations in Canada this month as part of planning for Pope Francis’s expected trip this year, with some surprised that the former Kamloops, B.C., residential-school site that sparked a national reckoning last year was not part of the initial scout.
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Indigenous, racialized and LGBTQ groups fear online hate bill may curtail rights
OTTAWA - Members of the LGBTQ community, Indigenous people and racialized groups fear a proposed law tackling online harm could disproportionately curtail their online freedoms and even make them police targets, responses to a government consultation have warned.
Haunting Canada boarding school shot wins World Press Photo
This latest photo win came less than a week after Pope Francis made a historic apology to Indigenous peoples of Canada, for mistreatment in catholic schools
Canada’s Indigenous peoples seek papal apology at Vatican for residential schools
Canadian indigenous peoples meet Pope Francis this week to ask him to apologise for the Catholic Church's role in residential schools where children were abused and their culture denied.
Pope to visit Indigenous communities seeking apology for Church’s role in residential schools
Pope Francis will meet representatives of Canada’s native peoples this month to listen to their concerns following the discovery of bodies of children buried in church-run schools in Canada, the Vatican said on Wednesday.
Almost half of prisoners held in isolation are Indigenous, panel says
Indigenous people make up half of all prisoners subjected to the harshest form of federal detention, an indication that problems persist under the federal government’s new model of inmate isolation.
Canadian Catholic bishops apologize to Indigenous peoples for residential schools
Catholic bishops in Canada are apologizing “unequivocally” to Indigenous Peoples for the suffering endured in residential schools, just as Pope Francis prepares to meet with Indigenous leaders at the Vatican later this fall.
Researchers say that TB at residential schools was no accident
Two experts in tuberculosis say the mass death from TB at residential schools was no accident, but the result of deliberate neglect that was part of Canada's broader genocidal project.
Catholic group says it will release all residential school records from B.C., Saskatchewan
The Missionary of Oblates of Mary Immaculate operated 48 schools, including the Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan and the Kamloops Indian Residential School in B.C
Canada proposes to settle indigenous lawsuit after discovery of children’s remains
Canada has reached a proposed settlement with a group of indigenous survivors of the now-defunct residential schools for the abuse they suffered, a federal minister said on Wednesday, ending a 14-year fight for justice.