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Native children didn’t ‘lose’ their lives at residential schools. Their lives were stolen
Jul 08, 2021 10:46Published in 2015, the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) estimated that 4,100 named and unnamed students died in Canada’s residential schools.
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Canadian inferno: Northern heat exceeds worst-case climate models
Jul 05, 2021 14:06Johan Rockström, the Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, said the recent extreme weather anomalies in British Columbia were not represented in global computer models that are used to project how the world might change with more emissions.
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'Horrifying': Record-breaking Northwest Heatwave linked to hundreds of deaths
Jul 05, 2021 13:49The record-shattering heatwave currently scorching the Pacific Northwest has been linked to hundreds of deaths in the region with British Columbia alone reporting at least 486 "sudden and unexpected" fatalities.
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Canada's indigenous genocide is ongoing
Jul 05, 2021 13:38The founding of these two North American neighboring countries, Canada and the US has everything to do with genocide and erasure of Indigenous presence — as well as erasure of the horrors committed by white supremacist authorities in government, police, religious institutions and educational systems.
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Queen statues toppled amid outrage over unmarked graves of Indigenous children
Jul 04, 2021 15:41A group of demonstrators gathered at the Manitoba legislature on July 1st as the country marked Canada Day, and pulled down a statue of Queen Victoria.
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Village in Canada destroyed in wildfires caused by record heat
Jul 02, 2021 10:33A series of wildfires that have been ravaging the Canadian province of British Columbia for several days now due to abnormally high temperatures have mostly destroyed the village of Lytton, local authorities say.
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Canada Day muted as country reckons with treatment of indigenous, other minorities
Jul 02, 2021 03:21Multiple cities scrapped Canada Day celebrations on Thursday after the discovery of hundreds of remains of children in unmarked graves at former indigenous schools sparked a reckoning with the country's colonial past.
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Canada: Two more Catholic churches on First Nations reserves destroyed by fire
Jul 01, 2021 15:02Two more Catholic churches on First Nations reserves in western Canada have been destroyed by fires that investigators are once again treating as suspicious.
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480 plus sudden deaths reported as heat wave hits Canada
Jul 01, 2021 09:13At least 486 sudden deaths have been reported in Canada’s British Columbia since Friday, in what seems to be related to a record-breaking heat wave sweeping the province.
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Nearly 200 bodies found near another former residential school in Canada
Jul 01, 2021 06:45A Canadian indigenous group has discovered nearly 200 unmarked graves on the grounds of another former residential school in Canada’s Saskatchewan, shortly after the discovery of a mass grave of First Nation children shook the country and reignited the debate over the horrific abuses against indigenous people.