The Canadian government has agreed to pay more than $2 billion to hundreds of Indigenous communities to settle a lawsuit centered around nearly a century of abuse suffered by children who attended ...

The Saskatchewan school was not included in the 2006 Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement because it predated the ...

Pope Francis issued a historic apology Monday for the Catholic Church's cooperation with Canada's "catastrophic" policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of Native ...

Despite the lack of supporting evidence, a bill was introduced in Canada’s federal parliament last month that would criminalize statements that deviate from the prevailing narrative on residential ...

Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. At first, John Jones’ childhood wasn’t very different from other kids. “The only important thing to a child is to play ...

Francis issued the apology years after a Canadian-government-funded report said children had been physically and sexually abused at the mostly... Years after a Canadian-government-funded commission ...

Jan 21 (Reuters) - Canada has reached an agreement to settle a class-action lawsuit seeking compensation for the loss of language and culture brought on by Indian residential schools, for C$2.8 ...

At least 150,000 Indigenous children were part of the system. LONDON, ROME and TORONTO -- Pope Francis apologized Friday for the Catholic Church's role in running Canada's brutal residential school ...

Pope Francis puts on an indigenous headdress during a meeting with indigenous communities, including First Nations, Metis and Inuit, at Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Catholic Church in Maskwacis, near ...

Pope Francis delivered a public apology on Monday for the Catholic Church’s role in Canada’s “catastrophic” residential school system for Indigenous children, and asked for forgiveness for the “evil ...