Proponents of Bill C-15 -- including leaders from major Indigenous groups AFN, ITK and MNC -- hail the senate's passing of Bill C-15 (aka the UNDRIP bill), now set to become law. The federal government makes its final case in court to quash the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal's expansion of Jordan’s Principle and compensation to First Nations families for the underfunding of child welfare. As supporters of the late Kristian Ayoungman gathered outside the courthouse, the trial of his accused shooter Brandon Giffen concludes. A federal and provincial joint review panel rejects the proposed Grassy Mountain coal mining project in southern Alberta. Leaders from the Heiltsuk Nation and the B.C. government sign a reconciliation agreement. In the latest “Stories of Survival" profile, we meet Kamloops Indian Residential School survivor Stanley Paul Sr.

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Canada’s bid to kill two human rights tribunal rulings continues as day four of a court battle is waged over the expansion of eligibility for Jordan’s Principle. In an emergency effort to boost flagging numbers of salmon in the Fraser River, B.C. First Nations and DFO release over 60,000 sockeye salmon fry into a creek north of Fort St. James. A profile of an Edmonton advocate calling for more to be done to prevent murdered and missing indigenous people. The next instalment of our residential schools survivors series.

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New developments in the human rights case of a Heiltsuk grandfather and granddaughter detained by police at a Vancouver bank in 2019. Outgoing Nunavut MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq doesn't mince words in her final statement to Parliament. The B.C. couple that tried to jump the COVID vaccines queue in the Yukon are back in court. The second instalment in “Stories of Survival,” our series profiling former residential school students, shares the story of Joanne Gottfriedson, who once attended the notorious Kamloops IRS.

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Canada continues its bid to quash two human rights tribunal orders: on day two of virtual court, advocacy organizations have their say on the issue of compensation. APTN News begins its series "Stories of Survival," honouring the many residential school survivors who have fearlessly shared their stories, features Louisa Celesta, who attended St. George's residential school in Lytton, B.C. The Ontario government pledges $10 million in support to identify and commemorate residential school burial sites. the city of Saskatoon changes the name of one of its streets as a reconciliatory gesture.

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Ottawa announces it will act on TRC Call to Action #17, which urged governments to enable residential school survivors and their families to reclaim Indigenous names taken away by the schools. Meanwhile, the Liberal government is in court hoping to quash human rights rulings related to First Nations kids in care. The Adams Lake Indian Band in B.C. organizes a ceremony to honour the 215 children buried at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. A pair of Manitobans are charged in connection with the weekend death of a Saskatchewan RCMP constable. 

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A Calgary-based CFS worker is placed on administrative leave after video of inflammatory comments toward a former ward goes viral. The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations calls on the pope to come to Saskatchewan to make an official apology to residential school survivors. The final excerpt of our extended conversation with Vancouver Archbishop Michael Miller about child graves at Kamloops IRS.

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Following the discovery of students' bodies at the Kamloops Indian Residential School site, a First Nation works to identify those buried at a school site in Brandon, MB. A group of lawyers from across the country ask the International Criminal Court to investigate what took place at the Kamloops IRS. A second excerpt from a longer conversation about Kamloops with the Archbishop of Vancouver, Michael Miller.  

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