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Ontario Commits $10M to Identify, Commemorate Residential School Burial Sites
In a virtual news conference, Ontario Premier Doug Ford announces the provincial government is committing $10 million over three years towards the identification, investigation, protection, and commemoration of burial sites at former residential schools in the province. Ontario will work with Indigenous leaders to develop a process for identifying these sites. The announcement comes in the wake of the recent confirmation of the existence of 215 unmarked graves at the site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia. The premier is joined by Brent Tookenay (CEO of Seven Generations Education Institute); Elder Howard Copenance (Naotkamegwanning Whitefish Bay First Nation); Greg Rickford (the province’s minister of Indigenous affairs); Ogichidaa Francis Kavanaugh (Grand Council Treaty #3); Theresa Stenlund (councilor, region 1 of the Métis Nation of Ontario); and Mark B. Hill (chief of the Six Nations of the Grand River).(June 15, 2021) (no interpretation)