Sinclair hopeful Canada’s ‘at threshold of a new era’ with indigenous peoples

More than 150,000 Inuit, Métis and First Nations children were taken from their families and sent to residential schools between 1876 and 1996, when the last residential schools were closed.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report isn’t just about history but “the ongoing, systemic discrimination against [indigenous] children today,” says NDP MP Charlie Angus, and the new Liberal government needs to act quickly on recommendat...

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