‘I want to tell you how very sorry I am’: Pope’s Iqaluit speech hews close to earlier apology
Pope Francis attends a community event near Nakasuk Elementary School in Iqaluit on Friday afternoon. In his speech, the Pope asked forgiveness and referred to the ‘indignation and shame’ he felt about Canada’s residential schools. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)
In the North, Indigenous workers outpaced non-Indigenous in CERB uptake by wide margin: Statistics Canada
According to the report, among all workers who earned at least $5,000 in 2019, more Indigenous workers (39.2 per cent) than non-Indigenous workers (33.9 per cent) received CERB payments.
N.W.T. residential school survivors, descendants head to Edmonton for papal visit
“So the evidence is there. You can see the way we are, our behaviours and how we walk through life, the struggles that we had, and the difficulties that we had — difficulties sometimes in learning, difficulties in relating to one another, difficulties in marriage, difficulties with alcohol.”
– Mabel Brown, residential school survivor
‘We can forgive, but we’ll never forget’: residential school survivors in Manitoba travel to papal visit stop
“We can forgive, but we’ll never forget what happened, and the pain, we’ll always carry the pain until the day we die.”
– Linda Daniels , residential schoolsurvivor
Indigenous people from Canada, U.S., meet in Saskatoon to sign treaty aiming to restore bison
The first signatories to the treaty — members of different nations in North America — put their names on the document in 2014 at the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, with the goal of allowing the free flow of the animals across the international border and restoring the spiritual and cultural connections between bison and Indigenous peoples.
Canada resuming mandatory random COVID-19 testing for air travellers
A little more than a month after pausing the measure, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) announced Thursday it will be re-implementing random testing for fully vaccinated air travellers arriving into the country at four major Canadian airports: Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto.
Senate report calls for law criminalizing forced or coerced sterilization
The Senate human rights committee began studying the issue back in 2019 and found that — far from being a problem of the distant past — forced and coerced sterilization was still taking place in Canada and Indigenous women were not the only people affected.
Indian day school settlement claim deadline passes, despite calls for extension
The federal Indian day school and federal day school system was an attempt to assimilate Indigenous children, by removing them from their languages and culture. The institutions were often run by religious institutions and some students faced physical, sexual and emotional abuse. Nearly 700 Indian day schools operated across Canada between 1863 and 2000.
Indigenous clean energy leaders gather in Iqaluit
(Indigenous Clean Energy Iqaluit, NU - July 10, 2022 - Press Release) - For the first time in program history, Indigenous Clean Energy (ICE) Social...
Nursing shortage driven by understaffed hospitals nationwide
“We have to fix the workplace in our healthcare system right now, it’s an urgent issue,”
– Linda Silas, president of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Union (CFNU)