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Search for Serial Killer's
Victims Could Cost $66M
Mar 27, 2024 7:01 AM CDT
Search for Serial Killer's Victims Could Cost $66M
Federal, provincial Canadian governments will fund search of landfill for slain Indigenous women
(Newser)
- Canada's federal government and the provincial Manitoba government have agreed to spend tens of millions to help search a landfill for the remains of two slain Indigenous women. A sum of $20 million Canadian—US $14.7 million—from each government is to go toward a search of the...
Canadian Nun, 97, Faces
Gross Indecency Charges
Oct 18, 2023 4:12 PM CDT
Canadian Nun, 97, Faces Gross Indecency Charges
She worked at infamous residential school for Indigenous children in the 1960s
(Newser)
- A 97-year-old nun in Canada is facing multiple charges connected to alleged sexual assaults at a notorious residential school for Indigenous children in the 1960s and 1970s. Police in Ontario say Francoise Seguin was charged with three counts of "gross indecency," an offence that was repealed when laws...
Another Indigenous
Woman's Body
Found in Landfill
Apr 6, 2023 9:55 AM CDT
Another Indigenous Woman's Body Found in Landfill
Remains of Linda Beardy were likely deposited within hours of Monday's discovery in Winnipeg
(Newser)
- The body of an Indigenous woman has been found in a Manitoba landfill where a suspected serial killer allegedly deposited at least one of his Indigenous victims. The body of Linda Mary Beardy, a 33-year-old mother of four from Lake St. Martin First Nation, was discovered by staff members at...
Churches Keep Burning
in Canada
Jun 27, 2021 7:00 AM CDT
Churches Keep Burning in Canada
4 churches on Indigenous land have burned in a week
(Newser)
- Churches on western Canada's Indigenous land keep burning weeks after the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves of children at the former sites of Catholic-run residential schools. Per the BBC , fires at St Ann's Church and the Chopaka Church, both in internior British Columbia, began within an hour...
Horrific Find Made at Another
Residential School Site
Jun 24, 2021 7:14 AM CDT
Horrific Find Made at Another Residential School Site
Hundreds of unmarked graves detected at Canadian school for Indigenous children
(Newser)
- Indigenous leaders in Canada say they are horrified—but not surprised—by the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school in Saskatchewan. The Cowessess First Nation says the discovery, made weeks after the remains of 215 children were found at a former school...
Yukon Town Irked
After Gaming CEO, Wife
Scam COVID Vaccine
Jan 26, 2021 7:21 AM CST
Yukon Town Irked After Gaming CEO, Wife Scam COVID Vaccine
Rod and Ekaterina Baker posed as local workers to qualify for shots meant for vulnerable community
(Newser)
- An Indigenous community in Canada is miffed after the CEO of the Great Canadian Gaming Corp. and his wife posed as new workers at a local Yukon motel and got the COVID vaccine, doses of which had been allotted to a tiny town due to its vulnerable rural community. Yukon...
Inquiry: It's 'Canadian Genocide'
the rundown
Jun 2, 2019 4:30 PM CDT
Inquiry: It's 'Canadian Genocide'
A long-awaited report is leaked in Canada
(Newser)
- Violence has haunted Indigenous girls and women in Canada for decades. Now a national inquiry there is calling it genocide, the CBC reports. The four-member commission, which took nearly three years and cost about $68 million, looked into thousands of murders and vanishings across the Indigenous landscape. "We do...
First Nations to Canada:
Time to Start Paying Up
Oct 16, 2017 8:15 PM CDT
First Nations to Canada: Time to Start Paying Up
First Nations are suing the government over 1850 treaty
(Newser)
- When William Benjamin Robinson arrived on the shores of what would ultimately become Ontario, Canada, in 1850, he made a deal on behalf of Queen Victoria: The indigenous communities currently living on the land would allow the crown access to more than 35,700 square miles of their land in...
The Girls Made a Suicide Pact.
Now 3 Have Followed Through
Jun 23, 2017 6:35 AM CDT
The Girls Made a Suicide Pact. Now 3 Have Followed Through
Wapekeka First Nation declares state of emergency
(Newser)
- A simple text saying goodbye. That was the last anyone heard from 12-year-old Jenera Roundsky, who committed suicide in Wapekeka First Nation in northern Ontario on June 13. Jenera had been part of a suicide pact made by young girls in the community of 400 Oji-Cree, which suffered the suicides...
First Nation Suit: Canada's
Parliament Is on Our Land
Dec 9, 2016 9:11 AM CST
First Nation Suit: Canada's Parliament Is on Our Land
Aboriginal group says it never relinquished title
(Newser)
- Ottawa's Parliament, Supreme Court, and the National Library may soon have some new owners—or new old owners. The city's south bank where these three institutions lie is in the middle of a land ownership lawsuit filed Wednesday by a Quebec First Nation, CTV News reports. "The...
Can 'Earthships' Solve
Canada's First Nations
Housing Crisis?
Jul 24, 2016 4:51 PM CDT
Can 'Earthships' Solve Canada's First Nations Housing Crisis?
'I just hope it doesn’t look like a Flintstones house'
(Newser)
- Could earthships be the solution to the housing crisis in Canada's First Nations communities? US company Earthship Biotecture thinks so. “This housing that we make is made to take care of people. Feed them, keep them warm, with no utility bills," the company's Michael Reynolds tells...
After 5 Teens Drown in Rivers, a Quest for Answers
Apr 5, 2016 11:15 AM CDT
After 5 Teens Drown in Rivers, a Quest for Answers
Ontario investigates deaths of 'First Nations' youths
(Newser)
- It took years of pressure by indigenous groups, but an inquest is underway in Canada into the deaths of five First Nations teens who drowned in two rivers in Thunder Bay, Ontario. As the CBC reports in a lengthy look at the issue, the five male teens were between 15...
10 Hurt, Suspect Dead in Office Hammer Attack
Oct 14, 2015 6:03 PM CDT
10 Hurt, Suspect Dead in Office Hammer Attack
Attack took place at First Nations government office
(Newser)
- A man armed with a hammer injured 10 people—some of them very seriously—during an attack Wednesday morning at a First Nations government office in British Columbia, CP24 reports. The suspect entered the Bridge River Indian Band office and attacked one person with a hammer. An emergency worker reports...
Man's 2-Year Quest
Leads Him to
Face in Cliffside
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Jun 28, 2015 7:00 PM CDT
Man's 2-Year Quest Leads Him to Face in Cliffside
Tough environment makes inspecting the face difficult
(Newser)
- Searching for a face in a crowd is hard enough. Searching for a face etched in a Canadian cliff is apparently a two-year endeavor. After a kayaker from Washington state reported seeing a face on a cliff while exploring the Broken Group Islands in British Columbia in 2008, Parks Canada...
Death of Girl Who Refused Chemo Under Investigation
Jan 23, 2015 6:21 AM CST
Death of Girl Who Refused Chemo Under Investigation
The 11-year-old, a member of the First Nations tribe in Canada, died of a stroke
(Newser)
- Makayla Sault made headlines last year when, after undergoing 12 weeks of chemotherapy to treat her acute lymphoblastic leukemia, she stopped treatment in May, opting instead for "traditional" medicine. The 11-year-old member of the First Nations tribe in Canada died of an apparent stroke Sunday, which her family says...
Canada Apologizes
to Indigenous Groups
Jun 12, 2008 4:42 AM CDT
Canada Apologizes to Indigenous Groups
Ottawa admits abuse of native cultures
(Newser)
- Canada formally apologized to its indigenous peoples yesterday for forcing children to attend government-run schools where they were often sexually and physically abused. Prime Minister Stephen Harper read the apology in Parliament, calling the forced assimilation a "sad chapter" in the nation's history that damaged several generations, the
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