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Canada pledges $320mn to fund campaigns searching for residential school graves & support survivors

The Trudeau administration announced the funding on Tuesday, with indigenous groups currently developing plans to uncover more burial sites. Around…

3 years ago

China-Canada row: Trudeau blasts China’s 11-year prison sentence for Canadian man charged with spying as ‘unacceptable’

A court in the city of Dandong, located far in China’s northeast along the border with North Korea, handed down…

3 years ago

My own country of Canada just kicked me out because my Covid immunity was acquired naturally and not from a vaccine

At the time of writing, I’m at an altitude of exactly 11,277m, 5,230km away from Vancouver, Canada, and 3,159km from…

3 years ago

Residential schools are a stain on Canada’s history that won’t be erased simply by appointing an indigenous Governor General

Recently, I wrote about the sudden emergence of media attention to the horrific issue of the Canada-wide “residential schools”, where…

3 years ago

School curriculum in Canada disputes view of math as ‘objective’ discipline, argues it has been used to ‘normalize racism’

Black and LGBTQ students, among others, have experienced "systemic barriers" to accessing high-level math instruction, such as racism and implicit…

3 years ago

Canada’s international image is a kind and gentle one. But internally, this Canada Day was a reminder of the nation’s dark history

Yesterday was Canada Day, a celebration of Canada’s confederation, which occurred on that same date in 1867. Usually, the federal…

3 years ago

Queen Elizabeth II statue toppled in Canada on national holiday, marred by grim discoveries of unmarked graves at Catholic schools

The activists gathered near the legislative building, located in the provincial capital, Winnipeg, to protest on Thursday, at one point…

3 years ago

Over 100 die suddenly in Vancouver area in 4 days, police say, as heat wave batters Western Canada

A wave of searing heat has plagued Canada’s western provinces since Friday, resulting in an overwhelming number of 911 calls…

3 years ago

The silence on Canada’s indigenous deaths shame shows there are double standards on global human rights

Yesterday 751 graves were found at a residential school in Canada, adding to a growing national scandal following the discovery…

3 years ago

China and Russia urge independent probe into Canada’s treatment of indigenous people as anger over mass-grave discovery rages

The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found in May by the Tk’emlúps te…

3 years ago