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Special interlocutor calls for 20-year probe into missing Indigenous children

Special interlocutor calls for 20-year probe into missing Indigenous children

OTTAWA — A final report into missing children and unmarked graves at residential schools is calling on the federal government to create an Indigenous-led national commission with a 20-year mandate to investigate missing and disappeared Indigenous chi
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Mayor didn't expect tight result in Ontario community vote to host nuclear waste site

Mayor didn't expect tight result in Ontario community vote to host nuclear waste site

Residents of an Ontario municipality voted in favour of hosting a deep geological repository for Canada's nuclear waste in an extremely tight referendum, and now the mayor says it's time to heal community fractures over the issue.
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Fake content is getting harder to detect but Hinton has an idea to make it easier

Fake content is getting harder to detect but Hinton has an idea to make it easier

TORONTO — Artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton says it's getting more difficult to tell videos, voices and images generated with the technology from material that's real -- but he has an idea to aid in the battle.
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South Bruce residents vote in favour of allowing underground nuclear waste storage

South Bruce residents vote in favour of allowing underground nuclear waste storage

A second Ontario municipality has formally decided it is willing to become the site of a deep geological repository for Canada's nuclear waste.
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Some say it's time for Canada to criminalize residential school denialism

Some say it's time for Canada to criminalize residential school denialism

OTTAWA — As a young child, Dennis Saddleman's mother always ensured he knew how much she loved him, gave him kisses on his forehead and told him how beautiful he was.
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Minister apologizes for government's handling of First Nations' money in 1800s

Minister apologizes for government's handling of First Nations' money in 1800s

NORTHEASTERN MANITOULIN AND THE ISLANDS, Ont. — Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree has apologized on behalf of the Canadian government to a group of Ontario First Nations for mismanagement of their money over a century ago.
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Canadian Indigenous leaders call Biden's apology for residential schools 'first step'

Canadian Indigenous leaders call Biden's apology for residential schools 'first step'

MONTREAL — Canadian Indigenous leaders say U.S. President Joe Biden’s apology for his country’s residential school system is only the first step toward healing generations of harm. On Friday, Biden apologized for the U.S.
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Native Americans laud Biden for historic apology over boarding schools. They want action to follow

Native Americans laud Biden for historic apology over boarding schools. They want action to follow

LAVEEN VILLAGE, Ariz. (AP) — President Joe Biden did something Friday that no other sitting U.S.
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Native Americans laud Biden for historic apology over boarding schools. They want action to follow

Native Americans laud Biden for historic apology over boarding schools. They want action to follow

LAVEEN VILLAGE, Ariz. (AP) — President Joe Biden did something Friday that no other sitting U.S.
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President Biden to apologize for 150-year Indian boarding school policy

President Biden to apologize for 150-year Indian boarding school policy

NORMAN, Okla.
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