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Reporter with The Canadian Press

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The Qu'Appelle residential school near Lebret, Sask. The Star Blanket Cree Nation says ground-penetrating radar has discovered more than 2,000 areas of interest and a child's jawbone fragment at the site. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Star Blanket Cree Nation

Ceremony to be held for child’s remains found at residential school site

The Star Blanket Cree Nation made the discovery in the fall while the community was searching the site of the former Lebret Indian Industrial School.

News | January 13th 2023

Kimberly Murray speaks after being appointed as Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools, on June 8, 2022. File photo by The Canadian Press/Justin Tang

Communities share stories of search for unmarked graves

On a clear summer day in August, Rebecca Blake found herself standing in a cemetery outside Edmonton searching for the graves of Inuvialuit who died in the South during a tuberculosis epidemic.

News, Politics | December 1st 2022

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau places a pair of children's shoes as he takes part in ceremonies for the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation in Ottawa on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. File photo by The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick

Ontario First Nation and environmental group join in residential school searches

A First Nation in Ontario is working with a Winnipeg environmental assessment firm to help communities investigate sites of former residential schools with an Indigenous-led approach.

News | November 30th 2022

People attend the Xe xe Smun’ eem-Victoria Orange Shirt Day Every Child Matters ceremony to honour victims of the Canadian Indian residential school system while at Centennial Square in Victoria on Sept. 30, 2021. File photo by The Canadian Press

It's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Here's what Canada's doing

Friday, September 30, 2022, is the second annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day.

News | September 30th 2022

Pope Francis prays at a gravesite at the Ermineskin Cree Nation Cemetery in Maskwacis, Alta., during his visit across Canada on Monday, July 25, 2022. File photo by The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette

Majority of Canadians view Pope's apology as a step toward reconciliation

A poll suggests more than half of Canadians viewed the recent visit by Pope Francis and his apology for abuses at residential schools as a step toward reconciliation.

News, Politics | August 12th 2022

An Indigenous woman wipes a tear during a mass with Pope Francis at the Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré in Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré, Que., on Thursday, July 28, 2022. Photo by The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette

Pope Francis denounces 'evil' of sexual abuse -- a first on Canadian soil

For the first time since the start of a Canadian tour highlighted by apologies for the Catholic Church's role in Indigenous residential schools, Pope Francis on Thursday, July 28, 2022, acknowledged sexual abuse inflicted on "minors and vulnerable people."

News | July 29th 2022

Brittany Hobson

Ceremony to be held for child’s remains found at residential school site

Communities share stories of search for unmarked graves

Ontario First Nation and environmental group join in residential school searches

It's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Here's what Canada's doing

Majority of Canadians view Pope's apology as a step toward reconciliation

Pope Francis denounces 'evil' of sexual abuse -- a first on Canadian soil

Pope hosts traditional mass, uses Indigenous languages during Alberta visit

Emotional scenes from the Pope's apology to survivors

‘I humbly beg forgiveness for the evil committed by so many Christians against the Indigenous Peoples’

Pope arrives in Canada in push for Indigenous reconciliation