Why are residential school testimonies being destroyed?

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Sep 30, 202600:29:25News & Politics

Today is the sixth National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, where the country remembers the 150,000 Indigenous kids who were taken from their communities and forced to enrol in Indian Residential Schools. While there,...

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