Exploring Theme: "Indian Boarding Schools"

Lawyer estimates deal could be worth $2.2 billion CBC News: The Canadian government and lawyers for survivors have reached an agreement-in-principle to settle a class-action lawsuit over the operation of boarding homes for Indigenous students attending public schools between 1951 and 1992. The federally run program saw an estimated 40,000 Indigenous youth placed in non-Indigenous boarding homes where...

Ottawa was in talks to settle one case and headed to trial on another when election called CBC News: Two major unresolved class action cases from the Indian residential school era will face the next government, and may be a test of its commitment to reconciliation, says a lawyer for one group of plaintiffs.  When the federal...