Tk'emlups te Secwepemc Nation

A New Democrat member of Parliament said on Tuesday, August 2, 2022, she hopes all of her colleagues will recognize the residential schools system as genocide, now that Pope Francis has used the term.

An unmarked burial ground at the former Kamloops, B.C. residential school set off a reckoning for Canadians about their country's history and relations with Indigenous Peoples, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday, May 23, 2022.

Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller says the searches on the grounds of former residential schools to date are just the beginning.

The federal government had originally hoped to remove a Parliament Hill memorial dedicated to Indigenous children who died and went missing from residential schools months earlier than actually happened last year, according to newly released documents.

Murray Sinclair, like so many other Indigenous leaders, says the discovery by First Nations of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential school sites has led to more people learning, and accepting, what survivors of these institutions experienced.

A First Nations chief in southern British Columbia says there are mixed feelings in his community after a Catholic church burned to the ground in an overnight fire, one of two Catholic churches in the area that were destroyed in blazes that police consider suspicious.

A report that details the discovery of what are believed to be the remains of 215 children at the former Kamloops residential school has been delayed slightly but is expected to be complete by the end of June, says Chief Rosanne Casimir.