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Evening Brief: Indigenous leaders to meet with Pope

Evening Brief: Indigenous leaders to meet with Pope
By iPolitics. Published on Jun 29, 2021 6:21pm
Pope Francis (Wikimedia Commons photo)
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With a goal of pushing for an apology from Pope Francis for the Catholic Church’s role in residential schools, national Indigenous leaders are set to meet with him at the Vatican in December. As CBC News reports, delegations of First Nations, Métis and Inuit will meet with him separately between Dec. 17 and Dec. 20, and then collectively on Dec. 20. “I’m hoping I can hear from the Pope that he understands the pain,” said David Chartrand, vice president of the Méti ....

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Senators decline to label China's treatment of Uyghurs a genocide

Posted: Jun 29, 2021 10:27 PM ET | Last Updated: June 30
A masked demonstrator attends a protest denouncing China s treatment of Uyghur Muslims in front of the Chinese consulate in Istanbul, on July 5, 2018. Canadian senators on Tuesday voted down a motion to label China s treatment of the Uyghurs as a genocide.(Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images)
Senators declined to label China s treatment of its Muslim minority Uyghur population as a genocide Tuesday evening.
A motion brought forward by Sen. Leo Housakos called on the Senate to recognize that a genocide is currently being carried out against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims.
Twenty-nine senators voted in favour of the motion, 33 senators voted against and 13 abstained. ....

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