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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...

APTN News: An archeologist from Akwesasne Mohawk Territory is questioning the methods being used to excavate an old hospital site by McGill University and Quebec’s public infrastructure society, or SQI. The site, the old Victoria Hospital, is being excavated and renovated as part of the New Vic Project, a joint venture between McGill and SQI to...

Request to have excavation of site stopped was denied. The old Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. Photo: APTN.  APTN News: The Canadian Press – A Quebec judge has ordered McGill University and Quebec’s infrastructure society (SQI), to comply with a deal it reached with a group of Mohawk women that outlines the search for possible...

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...

McGill says the investigation for unmarked graves has turned up nothing. A group known as the Mohawk Mothers was in court this week trying to stop McGill University and Quebec’s infrastructure society (SQI) from moving forward with a renovation of a former hospital.  APTN News: Excavation started up again at McGill University Sept. 11 for...

Women say court-approved agreement is not being followed CBC Indigenous: A group of Indigenous women were in Quebec Superior Court on Thursday trying to stop drilling and excavation at the site of a former hospital where they say unmarked graves may be located, and where McGill University is expanding its downtown campus. The women, who...

‘Going to be a long process,’ says survivor of residential school, helping with search WARNING: This story contains distressing details. CBC News: After George E. Pachano left residential school, he swore he would never return. But decades later, the 62-year-old, who was forced to spend four years of his childhood at St. Philip’s Indian Residential...

Archeological dig at old Montreal hospital on hold after incident with security guard. A pair of shoes located by archeologists in Montreal.  APTN News: A spokesperson for the Mohawk Mothers, or Kahnistensera, says the group feels pushed aside in the search for unmarked graves on McGill University grounds. The groups said they feel pushed aside in the...

Possible unmarked graves require more security, group known as Mohawk Mothers say CBC News: Cadaver dogs have identified possible evidence of human remains on the grounds of Montreal’s old Royal Victoria Hospital, a sprawling network of now-vacant buildings, some dating back 140 years, on Mount Royal’s southern flank. The search was conducted as part of an agreement between the Kanien’kehá:ka...

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,...

Families racked with guilt and doubt for decades hope for answers and some peace WARNING: This story contains distressing details. CBC News: The bodies of two Innu infants who died of whooping cough in a hospital in Baie-Comeau in 1970 are going to be exhumed, a first for Quebec’s new law designed to help Indigenous families get...

CBC News: While they haven’t yet toured even half of the Indigenous communities in Quebec, researchers overseeing the implementation of what is known as Quebec’s “Baby’s Law” say the number of missing Indigenous children is “greater than we had imagined.” According to the law’s second-year status report, the government-appointed team of researchers is now seeking...

Bill 79, An Act to authorize the communication of personal information to the families of Indigenous children who went missing or died after being admitted to an institution NationTalk: During a tribute held in the community of Pakuashipi in the Côte-Nord region to the courage of the families of Indigenous children who went missing or died, ...

Toronto Star – According to the most recent estimate of Awacak, a group which brings together bereaved families, at least 200 indigenous children have disappeared or died after being admitted to a hospital in Quebec. A number that makes sense, confirms the office of Ian Lafrenière, Quebec’s Minister Responsible for Indigenous Affairs. On Sept. 1,...

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...

Montreal Gazette – The day after being appointed a special adviser to Québec on the issue of missing Indigenous children, Anne Panasuk said Wednesday she believes systemic racism exists in the province — in direct contrast to the ruling Coalition Avenir Québec’s insistence it does not. The consequences of not recognizing systemic racism are demonstrated...