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CANADA: 'Convenient ignorance:' Peoples' knowledge of residential schools woefully lacking

CANADA: 'Convenient ignorance:' Peoples' knowledge of residential schools woefully lacking

Lack of understanding 'largely due to an education system that has shown a profound reluctance to come to grips with the horrors of the Indian residential school system'
WORLD: Pope voices sorrow over Canadian deaths, doesn't apologize

WORLD: Pope voices sorrow over Canadian deaths, doesn't apologize

Francis called on political and church authorities to work to shed light on what he called 'this sad affair' and to foster healing
CANADA: Climate change health costs to top $100B by mid-century, report says

CANADA: Climate change health costs to top $100B by mid-century, report says

The Canadian Institute for Climate Choices says effects on health are likely to be heaviest among those who are already disadvantaged
BEYOND LOCAL: How seedkeeping connects people with their roots, preserves crops for future generations

BEYOND LOCAL: How seedkeeping connects people with their roots, preserves crops for future generations

Cultivating traditional plants is a way of creating a space that is familiar within a new and often alienating environment
CANADA: Trudeau's acknowledgment of Indigenous genocide could have legal impacts, experts say

CANADA: Trudeau's acknowledgment of Indigenous genocide could have legal impacts, experts say

'A court could say, under current rules of international law, that the state has accepted responsibility under international law for the crime of genocide,' University of Montreal law professor Bruno Gelinas-Faucher says
ONTARIO: Calls spike at helpline for first responders as pandemic drags on

ONTARIO: Calls spike at helpline for first responders as pandemic drags on

The organization is made up of active or retired police officers, firefighters, paramedics, correctional officers, dispatchers and nurses who answer a helpline
CANADA: Have conversations, learn the truth about residential schools, experts urge

CANADA: Have conversations, learn the truth about residential schools, experts urge

While many school boards and universities have changed their curriculums to include the history of residential schools, some adult Canadians have never received that education
CANADA: Trudeau calls on Catholic Church to take responsibility for residential schools

CANADA: Trudeau calls on Catholic Church to take responsibility for residential schools

Trudeau says it's going to be important for Catholics across the country to reach out to bishops and cardinals on this issue
CANADA: Forced and coerced sterilization of Indigenous women ongoing, Senate report reveals

CANADA: Forced and coerced sterilization of Indigenous women ongoing, Senate report reveals

A Cree woman had just given birth to her sixth child in Saskatoon, when she was presented with a consent form for her sterilization
WORLD: Canada, allies file notice of claim against Iran for downing flight PS752

WORLD: Canada, allies file notice of claim against Iran for downing flight PS752

Canada has rejected a final report by Iran's civil aviation authority that blames "human error" for the Revolutionary Guard firing at the plane