A formal apology, at last

Pope Francis is in Canada today, visiting the sites of former residential schools where Indigenous children were sent, frequently by force. They were funded by the Canadian government and administered in large part by the Catholic Church. Crystal Fraser, an assistant professor of native studies, history, classics and religion at the University of Alberta, discusses the matter.

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