Two Manitoba First Nations search former residential school sites, find anomalies

Sagkeeng First Nation found 190 anomalies in the soil and Minegoziibe Anishinabe First Nation located six.

‘Always hope’: Remains of Cree woman sent home to Alberta decades after disappearance

Violet Soosay’s search for her missing aunt began four decades ago. The pursuit took her to parts of Alberta and B.C. and down paths of uncertainty as weeks, months and years passed without word of Shirley Ann Soosay.

First Nations leaders call on Pope Francis to visit residential schools

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.

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.

Indigenous parents struggle to register traditional names for babies

There are calls for provinces to allow special characters in naming rules so Indigenous parents can register traditional names for their babies.

Search underway for missing five-year-old boy in Red Earth Cree Nation

A large-scale search continues for five-year-old Frank Young in the Red Earth Cree Nation area

RCMP to receive $5.1-million to aid community responses to unmarked burial sites at former residential schools

The RCMP, who have long faced criticism over their troubled relationship with Indigenous people in Canada, are poised to receive $5.1-million over five years, beginning this fiscal year, to support community-led responses to unmarked burial sites at former residential schools.

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