Another 220 deaths have been discovered at the Canadian Indian Residential Schools, raising the province of Ontario’s total to 656. According to a recent coroner’s report, the exhaustive investigation, probing files and formerly sealed criminal records, identified infectious diseases as the predominant cause of death. However, some...
A report by Kimberly Murray says missing children and unmarked graves at Indian Residential Schools in Canada should be probed by a national commission. Murray is Ontario’s first ever Assistant Deputy Attorney General for Aboriginal Justice. Murray says the commission should have a 20-year mandate and be led by Indigenous representatives. Th...