Canada’s residential school abuse survivors face fresh battle to stop testimony being destroyed

First Nation communities warn that government must act as accounts face destruction, risking central part of Canada’s reckoning with its colonial legacy
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CBC: Journalist plans to create new archive of residential school survivor stories — before it’s too late. “A new project from award-winning journalist Connie Walker aims to create an archive of testimonies of abuse at residential schools before the accounts are destroyed in September 2027.”

"There are 38,000 records of survivors that are set to be destroyed … " https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/connie-walker-tmu-residential-schools-9.7162497

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