Current Problems: Missing Children and Burial Information (71-76)

Exploring Stakeholder: "Government of Nunavut"

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February 29, 2024


Senate committee hears from information commissioner on residential schools records access

Guidance on information disclosure ‘comes from the top,’ says Caroline Maynard CBC Indigenous: A Senate committee examining barriers to the release of records of deaths at residential schools heard Tuesday that federal departments and agencies should make information disclosure processes more accessible and informal. “We heard that the privacy and information regimes cannot work if the government itself does not believe...

January 29, 2024


Iqaluit to host national gathering on unmarked graves at residential schools

Three-day conference this week will focus on experiences of Inuit and northern communities Special interlocutor Kimberly Murray will speak this week when Iqaluit hosts the sixth National Gathering on Unmarked Burials from Jan. 30 to Feb. 1. (File photo by Jeff Pelletier) NationTalk: Nunatsiaq News – Unmarked burials and the experiences of Inuit and northern...

September 30, 2023


Orange Shirt Day: Canada faces rise in residential school denialism

Hate speech and confrontations are growing over the truth about missing children, graves and genocide People attend the second annual Orange Shirt Day Survivors Walk and Pow Wow on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on Sept. 30, 2022. With Orange Shirt Day approaching Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023, a surge in residential...

June 20, 2023


Residential School Denialism Is on the Rise. What to Know

And how to confront it. Because without the truth, there can be no reconciliation. The Tyee: May 27, 2023 marked the two-year anniversary of the Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc’s announcement about the location of 215 potential unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in the Interior of British Columbia. In recognition of the anniversary,...

July 22, 2021


Appeal to International Criminal Court

Nunantsiaq News: Nunavut MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq and her fellow NDP MP Charlie Angus held a press conference on Parliament Hill Thursday to ask federal Justice Minister and Attorney General David Lametti to reach out to the International Criminal Court to launch an investigation into a system they said “represents a crime against humanity.” “We need...