Global National: June 5, 2021 | Searching for truth at a former Nova Scotia residential school

On this episode of Global National: Radar technology that led to the discovery of 215 unmarked burial sites at a former Indigenous residential school in Kamloops, B.C., is now being used to search the grounds of a former residential school site in Nova Scotia. Jesse Thomas reports on the investigation underway at the former Shubenacadie residential school site.

The Group of Seven (G7) countries have agreed to start taxing multinational corporations. David Akin explains what this means for Canada and economies around the world that are struggling to recover from the pandemic’s blow.

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It's been over a year since doctors in New Brunswick first identified an "unusual combination of neurological symptoms" in a cluster of patients. Ross Lord reports on the efforts underway to determine a cause for an illness that’s killed six people to date.

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[vancouversure]

Justina is about as much a catholic as he is a feminist. Honest history, in context reveals it was the government of the day along with aboriginal leadership that came up with and passed legislation for - boarding schools for the 30% of aboriginals that didn't have access to a school. They asked several different Faith's to operate them. Not just Catholic. Same style of boarding school they operated around the world. The kids went home, parents could visit if they desired. Disease killed people all over Canada and bodies were buried promptly so as to control the infection. You dont mail a body up north that's carrying smallpox. These boarding schools gave the aboriginals a generational jump start. Where would they be today without them. Some evil actors in the mix - sadly it happened like it happens everywhere. Canada had a choice back then, and when they didn't have the money vs doing nothing. For that now our history is evil? No.

[Rocdastar]

Taxes are used to fund public issues, the people, who work for the public; and emergency catastrophic issues. Adjusting taxes to be reasonable is what the primary goal should be for the government. We pay our taxes for public services, such as Healthcare, public transportation; public protection from police officers, public school funding; sanitation; social security benefits for the disabled and elderly; state; federal; military service; and traffic combustion.

[votejustinout]

Why didn't Pierre Trudeau shut it all down when he was first elected in 1968???

[davidbrennan]

The People that went to those Schools should be compensated at the very least. I knew an older Native Woman and the stories she told me about those schools were horrifying.

[BrendanRiley]

11:11 is Global News seriously peddling the notion that wildfires could carry covid19 hundreds of kilometres in the air when it is well established that it is near impossible to spread covid19 outdoors, let alone over long distances?

[tenzinrigdol]

We need dr house to find out the cause of cause of the brain illness.

[TM-frgh]

Is trudeau going to isolate in a covid hotel when he gets back from England?

[laurafedora]

I’m so sorry for the pain our indigenous people have experienced.

I hope we can take some meaningful steps in helping them heal.

Also, can I say how beautiful ribbon skirts are?

[markbrown]

Luxury or no luxury always be proud of your brand and try working to improve. I love luxurious lifestyles. All thanks to crypto I just got my first Lamborghini 💝. My advice to y'all invest in cryptocurrency or gold.

[larryc]

“Rich nations like Canada” ?! You sure wouldn’t know it driving by more tent cities and homeless in doorways it Canadian cities than I’ve ever seen in my life and that was even pre Covid.

[BrendanRiley]

Comments are back. It should stay that way.

[k.sullivan]

Good to check it all out so that we can know the truth. I hope we can work as a country to make sure this never happens again, and to help native peoples advance their communities and education centers so they can get great educations in a safe way.

[terryarmbruster]

Watch a lot of things go up in price now because in the end its the consumer that pays. Watch investment drop as investors see less opportunity and more taxes on investments. Watch the layoffs come. Thanks for the so called fair global taxes, you dufuses

[supercatalyst]

And the world has given you everything to get through life! 100 yrs old good.

[terryarmbruster]

Truth! Lol 1. Majority of attendence of residential schools was by local natives. Only those lived far away had to live there. White kids also went to residential schools. 2. Education by beatings was quite common from start of schooling til at least the mid 80s some places early 2000s. Didn't matter if Nate black white Catholic Protestant etc. Lol you'd get beat by pretty much everyone that was an adult of authority those days. 3. Natives then made up what 5% of population if that. So what about the rest of us that went through same kind of s? So you have a few thousand lost that way. We have hundreds of thousands lost in the same time. 4. Wasn't just Catholics ran residential schools. Anglicans were even worse. 5. Most of those kids died from disease. In pandemics or epidemics back then wasn't much time or resources when a wave of diseases hit to record graves. Mass grave need not be all buried same time but can also and usually is an area used over a few years while diseases starvation etc run rampant. Wasn't just nates got unmarked unrecorded graves. Again far more of us than you that way. 6. Foreign languages got knocked out of way more of us too. Back then was white immigration galore and born in parents grandparents etc still speaking a lot of their home country so kids would have too much of an accent and too little of starting English vocabulary. All those kids went through the same s vs their teachers . even Cockney English kids Welsh Scots etc that could speak good English got beat on in schools because of accents. In Quebec the French were even more strict on that. ...
Lol I could easily go on. So why are Nates getting special treatment for? I personally went through a lot of s in my younger school days. Where's my and all the other non Nate old school days awards? Unless you were a Queen's English or Montreal French Elite white kid then its likely went through same if not worse s than nates. Lol so I bet this actual truth will pith off a lot of ppl. Lol at you

[joepalooka]

I can't see why Trudeau is still in power

[richardalan]

If success is cheap, every one wovld has been successful if the road to success was straight many would have been enjoying success long ago, but am sorry. Its not.! If your expecting your dreams to come cheaply. Then you need a change of mind. Success is not for people who give up easily it's not for lazy people who give excusess success come from people who are dedicated. Committed and ready to give their dreams and all it take to be fullflied. So I can ask again? What manner of person I you? Some who give up easily it's easily, or some ready to fight through the bad day to earn the days? Think about it.

[joepalooka]

The east will always vote Trudeau and Liberal!

[aaronb]

This conversation around residential schools is great. But why does no one ever talk about the residential schools in the US?

[larryc]

Yep, I’m dealing with a mystery disease/condition... very painful and disabling for 4 years now. Seen every specialist you can think of and tests and mri galore but no doc can fugure out why I’m on my back most every day in severe pelvic pain. All they can do is prescribe opioids to try to quell the symptoms but that’s hardly helping. So yes, Psychological suffering knowing you are dealing with an obviously rare condition is almost as bad as the pain and disability itself. Post Covid, I’m forced to leave Canada to try getting answers!