February 1, 2007 Church receives ‘rare’ photo archives

The daughter of a former principal of an Anglican-run Indian residential school in Alberta has donated rare and unique photographs depicting students and life at the school to the archives of the Anglican Church of Canada’s General Synod in Toronto.

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February 1, 2007 Eight courts approve Indian schools deal

An agreement that will compensate former Indian residential school students and limit legal liability for the churches that ran the institutions took a step closer to finalization when eight courts approved the arrangement.

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January 1, 2007 Settlement fund grows

The Anglican Church of Canada has collected about $18.7 million from its national office and 30 dioceses to cover potential damages sought by former students of the now-defunct Indian residential schools. As of Sept. 30, 2006,...

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January 1, 2007 AFN urges awareness of settlement details

The legal counsel for the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) has urged frontline workers working in reserves and native communities to make sure that former Indian residential schools students know that an “opt-out” period, which...

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December 18, 2006 Courts approve residential schools settlement

An agreement that will compensate former Indian residential school students and limit legal liability for the churches that ran the institutions took a step closer to finalization on Dec. 15 when seven courts approved the arrangement.

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December 1, 2006 Dioceses may soon stop paying into liability fund

If federal officials agree, Canadian Anglican dioceses will soon be able to stop raising money for the fund that has paid damages resulting from lawsuits alleging abuse at boarding schools for native students.

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October 1, 2006 Settlement fund still growing

The Anglican Church of Canada has collected about $18.7 million from its national office and 30 dioceses to cover potential damages sought by former students of the now-defunct Indian residential schools. As of June 30, $9.5...

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October 1, 2006 Former students urge fairness in settlement

Ten former students of Indian residential schools, among them former Keewatin bishop Gordon Beardy, took the podium on the last day of the Ontario hearing for the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement and raised...

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September 7, 2006 Former students urge fairness in schools settlement

Ten former students of Indian residential schools, among them former Keewatin bishop Gordon Beardy, took the podium on the last day of the Ontario hearing for the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA) and raised objections to parts of the deal struck this year between the federal government, churches and some native groups.

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August 30, 2006 Judge questions logistics of settling schools cases

The first court hearing on the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA) began Aug, 29, with Ontario Superior Court Justice Warren Winkler questioning how “realistic” the goal is of resolving – within the agreement’s prescribed six-year period –cases involving former students who have alleged sexual and physical abuse.

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