A 2017 photo of the former residential school in Birtle, Man., from the Great Plains Publications book Abandoned Manitoba: From Residential Schools to Bank Vaults to Grain Elevators, by historian ...

An estimated 150,000 Indigenous children were taken from their communities and forced to attend the schools. Though it's difficult to say exactly how many residential schools operated over their more ...

Residential school survivors met with Catholic bishops in Winnipeg Wednesday to discuss what they'd like to hear from Pope Francis when he visits Canada this summer.

WINNIPEG — A Manitoba cabinet minister who, three weeks ago, defended some of the intentions behind residential schools said Wednesday the schools were part of a genocide under a plan by former ...

In 1990, the then-head of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs told a Canadian Broadcasting Corp. program that he and many of his peers had been abused, including sexually, as residential school ...

Brian Normand spent only a couple years—between the ages of five and six—at St. Charles Day Residential School in Manitoba, Canada, in the early 1960s, but he still feels the effects of that ...

Canadian police say they have spent over a decade investigating abuse allegations at a former residential school for indigenous children. The government-funded Fort Alexander school in Manitoba ...

A former Manitoba Progressive Conservative MLA and justice minister is hoping for vindication after being “cancelled” for his views on Canadian Indigenous residential schools. After publishing ...

An archaeological team found “no conclusive evidence” of human remains at the former site of Pine Creek Residential School in Camperville, Manitoba, Canada.

A school trustee’s comments about Indigenous people and residential schools have led to condemnation from many quarters and a review by the Manitoba government.. Paul Coffey, a trustee in the ...

Maggie MacintoshLocal Journalism Initiative ReporterWinnipeg Free PressA trustee on Dauphin’s beleaguered school board is taking his colleagues to court o ...