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Manitoba First Nations advocates are working to ensure that any children who may have been buried on the sites of former residential schools, including any who are among hundreds of unmarked graves recently discovered in Saskatchewan, are returned home.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today the pain and grief Indigenous communities are feeling after a preliminary report of 751 unmarked graves found near a former residential school in Saskatchewan is “Canada’s responsibility to bear.”

Premier Joe Savikataaq said called for apologies, accountability and ‘meaningful, quality’ reparations after a preliminary finding of 751 unmarked graves at a cemetery near a former residential school in Saskatchewan.

The chiefs of the Cowessess First Nation and the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations spoke about the discovery of a “substantial” number of unmarked graves at the site of the Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan.

Like businesses across the country, many Indigenous-led companies needed financial help during the pandemic. But many struggled to access support programs like the wage subsidy because of the way those programs were set up.

Indigenous faculty and students at Queen’s University say the administration has left them in the dark as questions grow in response to an anonymous report alleging six instructors, professors and associates falsely claimed Indigenous identity.

Morgan Teiakonwathe Curotte was among the first people in Kahnawake, a Kanien’kehá:ka community south of Montreal, to come out as transgender.

A news release from Cowessess and the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous First Nations did not give a specific number, but said it will be the most found to date in Canada.

The National Gallery of Canada’s new logo symbolizes a shift away from its western and Eurocentric focus and toward Indigenous art and other underrepresented communities.

The National Arts Centre (NAC) Indigenous Theatre and Facebook Canada hope to help hundreds of Indigenous people create online content about their lives and culture through a new initiative.