Thanks to a new generation of visionaries, cities like Toronto and Vancouver are finally beginning to reflect the legacies of ...

Late-summer sunlight glints off the water as I step onto a pontoon boat on the St. Lawrence River. As we glide alongside the ...

TORONTO — Decades after many other rich countries stopped forcibly sterilizing Indigenous women, numerous activists, doctors, politicians and at least five class-action lawsuits allege the practice ...

As a teenager in India, Susai Jesu led prayer services in his small Catholic village, helped at Mass and soon began training for the priesthood ...

From the Maritimes to British Columbia, there are nearly 650 First Nation communities in Canada — each with their own distinct indigenous history and traditions. And many are eager to share their ...

In the Canadian winter of 2002, passers-by walking through Vancouver’s Downtown East Side could see Rebecca Belmore, from the Indigenous Anishinaabe Nation, nailing her long red dress to a telephone ...

Anishinabek Nation Chief Water Commissioner Autumn Peltier. (Illustration by Nathalie Cruz for Yahoo Life) Peltier, a young member of the Anishinabek Nation and resident of the Wiikwemkoong Unceded ...

On May 29, the remains of 215 Indigenous children were found at Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia. Last week, Cowessess First Nation uncovered 751 additional unmarked graves, most ...

Pope Francis has apologized for the Catholic Church’s role in the abuse of Canada’s indigenous people, particularly in residential schools. Speaking to Canadian indigenous leaders Friday in the ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Friday made a historic apology to Indigenous peoples for the “deplorable” abuses they suffered in Canada’s church-run residential schools and said he hoped to visit ...

Pope Francis has offered an apology to Canada's Indigenous community for what he called "the evil committed by so many Christians against the Indigenous peoples." The apology, more than 100 years in ...