Time

The ‘Deplorable’ History Behind the Pope’s Apology to Canada’s Indigenous Communities

Many of Wahéhshon Whitebean’s family members attended Canada’s residential schools—largely Catholic-run institutions designed to erode Indigenous culture and that were rife with abuse. So Pope Francis ...
National Catholic Reporter

A year after Pope Francis' Canada trip, sisters walk long road to reconciliation amid boarding schools' bitter legacy

On a frigid February morning in 2013, Sr. Renelle Lasalle sat next to her friend Monique A. Papatie in a hotel conference center in Val-d'Or, a mining town in the western Quebec region of Abitibi ...
LAist

Stories From Canada's Indigenous Residential School Survivors

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U of T is Canada's top school in a new best universities ranking and other schools aren't close

There is a new best universities ranking, and so many Canadian schools made the list. But other schools in Canada didn't come close to the University of Toronto! On October 9, 2025, Times Higher ...
National Catholic Reporter

Children's graves in Canada reflect Catholic logic of Indigenous vanishment

Late last month, the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc First Nation community announced its grim discovery of 215 graves at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia. The news of so many ...
NPR

A documentary investigates deaths of indigenous children at Canadian boarding schools

NPR's David Folkenflik speaks with Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat about their new documentary, "Sugarcane," about Indian residential schools in Canada. In Canada, Indigenous children from ...
PBS

'Sugarcane' exposes horrifying abuse of Native children in Canadian schools

An investigation at an Indian residential school in Canada is the focus of the documentary, “Sugarcane," named after a Native reservation in British Columbia. The film is up for an Academy Award, and ...
Time

Indigenous Groups in Canada Want More Than Apology During Pope’s Visit

Brian Normand spent only a couple years—between the ages of five and six—at St. Charles Day Residential School in Manitoba, Canada, in the early 1960s, but he still feels the effects of that ...
Politifact

How do you count school shootings in Canada? Depends on how you classify the incidents

Eleven people have been killed at day care, primary and secondary schools in Canada excluding suspects who died by suicide, a domestic violence incident that happened in a school parking lot, a former ...
Los Angeles Times

More than 600 bodies found at former school for Indigenous children in Canada, report says

VANCOUVER, Canada — Leaders of Indigenous groups in Canada said Thursday that investigators have found more than 600 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school for Indigenous children ...
The Conversation

Ukrainian language schools in Western Canada were shaped by shifting settler colonial policies

Andrea Sterzuk does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
NBC News

Canada pressured to find all unmarked Indigenous graves after children's remains are found

Canada has been dealt a somber reminder of one of the darkest chapters of its history over the past week. The remains of 215 children were found last month buried in unmarked graves at a former ...