Canada’s residential school abuse survivors face fresh battle to stop testimony being destroyed (opens in new tab)

First Nation communities warn that government must act as accounts face destruction, risking central part of Canada’s reckoning with its colonial past• ‘Cultural genocide’: the shameful history of Canada’s residential schools – mappedCheryle Dreaver first heard her mother discus what she had endured as a child in a Winnipeg courtroom in 2008.Ivy Dreaver was one of tens of thousands of Indigenous people in Canada invited by the federal government to testify about their experiences of sexual, p...