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CTV News
30-05-2025
- General
- CTV News
Centre for Truth and Reconciliation to release names of residential school priests
An Every Child Matters Flag flies during a powwow at James Smith Cree Nation, Sask., on Friday, September 1, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Heywood Yu OTTAWA — The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation says it will soon release the names of 140 priests or brothers who worked in residential schools. Along with their names, the centre says it will also post online their personnel files and the names of the schools where they served. The list was developed with the Oblates of OMI Lacombe Canada, which the centre says played a 'fundamental role in Canada's residential school system.' The centre says the records are a 'vital' resource for families and communities as they research survivors and those who never made it home, and that the names of the priests and brothers will be 'updated on an ongoing basis.' Raymond Frogner, head of archives and senior director of research for the centre, says the files tell the story of the schools. He says they are 'creating a central source to examine, understand and heal from one of the longest serving and least understood colonial programs in the history of the country.' Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press
CBC
09-04-2025
- CBC
Woman arrested after Pride, Every Child Matters flags vandalized on Eastern Shore
Nova Scotia RCMP have arrested a 64-year-old woman from Dartmouth following a "hate-motivated crime" involving vandalized Pride and Every Child Matters flags in Lower Ship Harbour late last month. In a news release, police said they received a report of mischief at a residential property on West Ship Harbour Road on March 25. "The mischief is considered to be motivated by hate based on race, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression," the release said Wednesday. In an earlier release on March 31 about the same incident, police said a Pride flag and an Every Child Matters flag located at the end of a driveway had been vandalized. The Pride flag is associated with the 2SLGBTQ+ community and the Every Child Matter flag acknowledges the harm caused by residential schools to Indigenous children. Police arrested a suspect on April 6. She will be facing a charge of mischief. She has since been released and is scheduled to appear in Dartmouth provincial court on May 12.
