Indian residential school system

A Vancouver Island First Nation has announced the detection of 17 suspected unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school, in an emotional event that combined science and ceremony on Tuesday, February 21, 2023.

Searches for unmarked graves at the site of a former northern Ontario residential school have uncovered 171 “plausible burials," the Wauzhushk Onigum Nation said on Tuesday, January 17, 2023, with other sites still to be investigated. 

The Canadian government says a law firm that represented thousands of residential school survivors should have to pay back legal fees because it inflated its billings.

According to TRC Commissioner Dr. Marie Wilson, it was the first time in Canadian history that a prime minister had officially acknowledged their work.