2021-06-28 04:34:45 GMT2021-06-28 12:34:45(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
Children's shoes and toys are placed on the staircase outside Vancouver Art Gallery during a memorial event for the 215 children whose remains have been found buried at a former Kamloops residential school, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 30, 2021. (Photo by Andrew Soong/Xinhua)
OTTAWA, June 26 (Xinhua) Though touting itself a model for human rights, Canada was confronting its ugly history of encroaching upon the human rights of the indigenous people, as hundreds of unmarked graves were discovered at former indigenous residential schools.
Less than a month after the discovery of the remains of 215 indigenous children at a former residential school in western Canada, both Canada and the international community were again shocked by the new discovery of 751 more unmarked graves at a cemetery near another former indigenous residential school in the Canadian province of Saskatchewa
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New Healing Centre to be Located in Cowichan Valley
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An Indigenous Healing Centre for Vancouver Island will be built by the Tsow-Tun Le Lum Society in the Cowichan Valley.
Tsow Tun Le Lum Healing Centre has been located on land leased from the Snaw-Naw-As First Nation, near Nanaimo, since July of 1986.
The new healing centre will have 16-rooms and 32 beds, reducing the number of beds in each room to two.
The current centre has 10 rooms with more beds in each room.
Executive Director Nola Jeffrey says the need to treat the underlying trauma that causes substance abuse and violence is as great as ever, especially since the news of 215 children buried in unmarked graves at a residential school in Kamloops.