CANADA
Winnipeg Free Press
By: The Canadian Press
Posted: 02/24/2012
VANCOUVER – A commission set up to help First Nations heal from abuses they suffered in residential schools is about to release an interim report and a new historical publication.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada will release the documents during a presentation this morning at Simon Fraser University’s downtown Vancouver campus.
About 150,000 aboriginal children were forced to attend the schools, the first of which opened in the 1870s and the last of which closed in 1996.
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