The discovery of the remains of 215 children at a former residential school in Canada has reopened wounds for survivors of the system, they said, as the government pledged to spend previously promised money to search for more unmarked graves.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits the makeshift memorial erected in honour of the 215 indigenous children remains found at a boarding school in British Columbia.
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The Tk emlúps te Secwépemc indigenous nation in British Columbia announced last week it had found the remains of 215 children, some as young as three, buried at the site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School, once Canada s largest such schools.
It came like a punch in the gut. The news of the discovery of the bodies of 215 children on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School have.
JCCF fighting pandemic worship restrictions across Canada June 3, 2021
Provincial governments across Canada are presenting faith adherents with rays of hope by unveiling roadmaps and timelines on the lifting of public worship restrictions heading into the summer months.
Ultimately, these scenarios will come to fruition if the vaccination rates and the trajectory of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations hit goals set by provincial health departments.
These guidelines are not enough for some who want to return to their places of worship, sooner and more fully. And they have an ally in the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF), a legal advocacy group headquartered in Calgary, that has not deviated from one fixed target: an end to all lockdown restrictions.