What’s going on with Canada ?

[yemdoing]

Why there is so much outrage ? 
 

summary pls 

[Joker_007]

on what issue..?

[kdapparao]

Home prices all time high

[Spartan]

4 minutes ago, yemdoing said:

Why there is so much outrage ? 
 

summary pls 

Heat wave...power shutdown epxected..

ca lo its common during heat waves

[Sputnik]

9 minutes ago, yemdoing said:

Why there is so much outrage ? 
 

summary pls 

are you talking about cancellation of Canada day Celebrations?

[yemdoing]

7 minutes ago, Joker_007 said:

on what issue..?

indegenious kids graves gurinchi.
Churches  are burnt by protesters, queen statue toppled . 
 

 

[Sputnik]

The discovery in May of the remains of 215 Indigenous children - students of Canada's largest residential school - prompted national outrage and calls for further searches of unmarked graves.

Since then, two more unmarked gravesites have been found, providing previews of investigations by Canada's First Nations into the deaths of residential school students.

A rising tally of these sites - more than 1,100 so far - has triggered a national reckoning over Canada's legacy of residential schools. These government-funded boarding schools were part of policy to attempt to assimilate Indigenous children and destroy Indigenous cultures and languages.

Here's what we know about the findings so far.

What do we know about the preliminary findings?

In May, Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc Chief Rosanne Casimir announced that the remains of 215 children had been found near the city of Kamloops in southern British Columbia (BC).

Some of remains are believed to be of children as young as three.

 

All of the children had been students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School - the largest such institution in Canada's residential school system.

The remains had been confirmed days before with the help of ground-penetrating radar technology, Chief Casimir said, following preliminary work on identifying the burial sites in the early 2000s.

The full report into the remains found is due in late June, and the preliminary findings may be revised. Indigenous leaders and advocates have said they expect the 215 figure to rise.

"Regrettably, we know that many more children are unaccounted for," said Chief Casimir in a statement.

Thousands of children died in residential schools and their bodies rarely returned home. Many were buried in neglected graves.

In June, the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan announced it had found 751 unmarked graves after a similar investigation - the largest such discovery to date. The remains were found near the former Marieval Indian Residential School, which operated from 1899 in 1996 under the control of the Roman Catholic Church.

 

Cowessess leaders have not yet determined if all of the unmarked graves belonged to children. Technical teams will continue the investigation to provide verified numbers.

Cowessess Chief Cadmus Delorme emphasised that the discovery was of unmarked graves - not a mass grave site - and suggested that the Catholic Church may have removed grave markers at some point in the 1960s.

Then, just a week later, the Lower Kootenay Band in British Columbia said the remains of an additional 182 people had been found near the grounds of the former St Eugene's Mission School. St Eugene's was operated by the Catholic Church from 1912 until the early 1970s.

Some remains were found in shallow graves, the Lower Kootenay Band said in a statement.

To this day there is no full picture of the number of children who died in residential schools, the circumstances of their deaths, or where they are buried. Efforts like those of the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation and the Cowessess First Nation are helping to piece some of that history together.

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The Kamloops school, which operated between 1890 and 1969, held up to 500 Indigenous students at any one time, many sent to live at the school hundreds of kilometres from their families. Between 1969 and 1978, it was used as a residence for students attending local day schools.

 

Of the remains found, 50 children are believed to have already been identified, said Stephanie Scott, executive director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. Their deaths, where known, range from 1900 to 1971.

But for the other 165, there are no available records to mark their identities.

Children "ended up in pauper graves," Ms Scott said. "Unmarked, unknown."

The findings incited anger throughout Canada, with people creating makeshift memorials across the country.

But for Indigenous leaders, the discovery was not unexpected.

"The outrage and the surprise from the general public is welcome, no question," said Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde following the BC report. "But the report is not surprising."

"Survivors have been saying this for years and years - but nobody believed them," he said.

[Sputnik]

So they decided to Mourn yesterday rather than celebrate

[Joker_007]

i do not think so.when i asked canadian friends they laughed and told me " it is sh**t pot just people are getting fun by stirring it let them enjoy the stink.... This will not define who we are ... "