Last month the remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, were found buried on the site of another Indigenous Catholic-run residential school.
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U.S. border restrictions extended as Canada scrambles to vaccinate
There are growing calls in the U.S. to open the Canada-U.S. border for nonessential travel like tourism, but less than 20% of Canadians are fully vaccinated.
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Pope voices ‘pain’ over Indigenous students deaths in Canada, doesn’t apologize
The majority of residential schools were run by Roman Catholic missionary congregations.
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Sen. Collins cheers move toward reopening Maine–New Brunswick border
New Brunswick recently unveiled a plan to allow travel between the province and Maine starting July 1.
Posted inHealth, Local & State, Nation & World
Mysterious, devastating brain disorder afflicts dozens in New Brunswick
Across the border in Maine, officials say their disease surveillance and epidemiology teams learned about the cluster in March, but no cases have been reported there.
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Canada OKs Pfizer vaccine for ages 12 and older
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to follow suit by next week, setting up shots for many before the beginning of the next school year.
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Proud Boys’ Canadian chapter, designated a terrorist group, says it has ‘dissolved’
Canada is believed to have been the first country is the first to have declared the group a terrorist entity.
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Frustration builds on world’s longest border as Canada goes slow on reopening
It’s not merely that the country has a lot of virus cases, but a lot of serious ones.
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Canada’s Supreme Court says Native Americans can hunt in the country
The decision could have far-reaching ramifications for Indigenous people on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border.
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Grueling lockdown has Toronto businesses at breaking point
Ontario’s government invoked a four-week ’emergency brake’ on Thursday that tightens restrictions again and extends them across the province of 14.7 million people.