Tag Archives: Education

CALGARY - Clarence Wolfleg remembers the day his mother took him to school. It was 1956 and for the next 5 1/2 years he attended the Old Sun Residential School outside Gleichen in southern Alberta. "M...

OTTAWA - Brandon Rheal Amyot was sweating while perusing summer job opportunities in February, realizing that opportunities weren't abundant. The Lakehead University student watched something similar ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Valeria Luiselli is pleased to have passed the libraries' test with her first novel written directly in English, "Lost Children Archive" ("Sound Desert"), which received the Dublin ...

Indigenous leaders are expressing disappointment and frustration over comments by Pope Francis they say fell short of an apology for the Catholic Church's role in residential schools. Perry Bellegarde...

TORONTO - A Ryerson University task force reviewing the legacy of the school's namesake said Monday it would not speed up its work despite calls for immediate action and the toppling of a Egerton Ryer...

AZUSA, Calif. (AP) - A person has been taken into custody after authorities investigated gunfire near a Christian university campus in Southern California on Sunday, officials said. Azusa Pacific Univ...

TORONTO - Aspects of what Canadian students are taught about Indian residential schools in the provinces and territories: Newfoundland: Is looking to explore making the topic of residential schools "m...

TORONTO - Widespread shock at the discovery of what are believed to be the buried remains of 215 Indigenous children has highlighted the pervasive ignorance among many Canadians of one of the most sor...

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis on Sunday expressed his pain over the discovery in Canada of the remains of 215 Indigenous students of church-run residential schools and pressed religious and politic...

The first Indigenous head of the Canadian Bar Association was a law school student in his mid-20s when he met his grandfather and learned he'd survived a "horrible" existence at a residential school i...