Canadian Indian residential school system
Canadian Catholic bishops apologize for residential schools
Catholic bishops in Canada apologized on Sept. 24 "unequivocally" to Indigenous peoples for the suffering endured in residential schools, just as Pope Francis prepares to meet with Indigenous leaders at the Vatican later this fall.
Canada: Bodies at Indigenous school not isolated incident
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on May 31 it's not an isolated incident that over 200 children were found buried at a former Indigenous residential school.
Trudeau's comments come as Indigenous leaders are calling for an examination of every former residential school site, institutions that held children taken from families across the nation.
Hundreds of children’s remains discovered at what was Canada’s largest Indigenous school
A report more than five years ago by a Truth and Reconciliation Commission detailed harsh mistreatment inflicted on Indigenous children at the institutions