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The chief of the Tŝilhqot’in National Government says the body tasked with governing B.C.'s law profession has failed to "appropriately condemn" a lawyer who hired a paroled killer accused of extorting money from residential school survivors.
A Vancouver archbishop says that apologies by local church figures for the institution’s role in Canada’s residential schools “might not be enough” in the absence of a formal apology from the pope. But he hopes they will be “accepted as gestures of goodwill.”
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On Friday, about 224 people gathered in Rainy River First Nation to honour the 215 children found at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.
This is the second ceremony to be held in northwestern Ontario. The first was held in Couchiching three days following the discovery.
The discovery was made on May 27 when Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation said in a statement that with the help of ground penetrating radar specialist, the stark truth of the preliminary findings came to light. This was the confirmation of the remains of 215 children who were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.