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After Pope called residential schools ‘genocide,’ House of Commons should too: NDP MP
Pope Francis holds a news conference aboard the papal plane on his flight back after visiting Canada, July 29, 2022. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane/Pool
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Residential-school survivors hope Pope’s acknowledgment of genocide will finally end debate
Pope Francis holds a news conference aboard the papal plane on his flight back after visiting Canada, July 29, 2022. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane/Pool
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Pope Francis says genocide took place in Canada’s residential schools
Pope Francis speaks to journalists aboard the papal flight back from Canada Saturday, July 30, 2022,
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International Court of Justice rejects Myanmar’s objections to Rohingya genocide case
FILE- A Rohingya Muslim man, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, builds a shelter for his family, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017, in Taiy Khali refugee camp, Bangladesh. Judges at the International Court of Justice rule Friday July 22, 2022, on whether a case brought by Gambia alleging that Myanmar is committing genocide against the Rohingya can go ahead. Myanmar argues that the court does not have jurisdiction. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)
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Trudeau visits Rwandan Genocide Memorial
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Ukraine investigating forcible deportation of children to Russia as possible genocide
FILE - People survey the destruction amid the smoldering remains of a shopping center in Kyiv, Ukraine, following a shelling by Russian forces on March 21, 2022. Relentless shelling, bombing and airstrikes have reduced large swaths of many cities and towns to rubble in the 100 days since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)
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Ukrainian victims of sexual violence need reproductive health care, Minister Harjit Sajjan says
International Development Minister and Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada Minister Harjit Sajjan rises during Question Period, Wednesday, March 23, 2022 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Serious risk of genocide in Ukraine as Russia breaches international treaty, report says
FILE Ñ Bodies are loaded onto a truck to be taken for further forensic investigation, in Bucha, Ukraine, April 12, 2022. The town, not far from the capital of Kyiv, is where the warÕs worst atrocities have been discovered, and as the days pass the full scope of the terror and butchery only grows. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times)
opinion
The past is present: What role should Canada’s historians play in reconciliation? The question has proved surprisingly controversial
Ira Basen
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Parliament votes unanimously to declare Russia’s war on Ukraine as genocide
FILE PHOTO: SENSITIVE MATERIAL. THIS IMAGE MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB Forensic technicians exhume the bodies of civilians who Ukrainian officials say were killed during Russia’s invasion and then buried in a mass grave in the town of Bucha, outside Kyiv, Ukraine April 8, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY/File Photo
opinion
Patrick Brown dives dangerously into diaspora politics
Konrad Yakabuski
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Trudeau welcomes talk of Russia’s actions in Ukraine as genocide
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers a media statement at EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. Justin Trudeau says it is "absolutely right" that people are describing Russia's actions in Ukraine as genocide. The prime minister says there are official, legal procedures for determining whether a genocide is occurring. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, Pool)
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Russia faces growing outrage amid new evidence of atrocities in Bucha
A mass grave on Sunday, April 3, 2022, near an Orthodox church in Bucha, Ukraine. With Russian forces retreating, Ukrainians in Bucha are finding scores of bodies in yards and on the roads amid mounting evidence of intentional and indiscriminate killings of civilians. (Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times)
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Biden administration rules Myanmar army committed genocide against Rohingya
FILE PHOTO: Soldiers stand next to military vehicles as people gather to protest against the military coup, in Yangon, Myanmar, February 15, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo/File Photo
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International Court of Justice orders Russia to cease hostilities in Ukraine
People demonstrate in support of the Ukraine outside the United Nations' top court in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, March 16, 2022, where judges where expected to rule on a request by Ukraine to order Russia to halt its devastating invasion. But it remains to be seen if Moscow would comply with any order made by the International Court of Justice. Russia snubbed a hearing last week at which lawyers for Ukraine accused the country's powerful neighbor of "resorting to tactics reminiscent of medieval siege warfare" in its brutal assault. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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Russia fails to appear at International Court of Justice as Ukraine argues invasion was built on a lie
THE HAGUE NETHERLANDS - MARCH 07: In this handout provided by the International Criminal Court of Justice (ICJ), public hearings take place on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by the Ukraine in the case concerning Allegations of Genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Ukraine v. Russian Federation), held under the presidency of Judge Joan E. Donoghue, President of the Court on the first day of hearings at the Peace Palace on March 7, 2022 in The Hague, The Netherlands. Oral arguments were presented by Ukraine. Ukraine is petitioning the ICJ to classify Russia's invasion as a genocide and issue an injunction under the UN Convention against Genocide. (Photo by Frank van Beek/ICJ via Getty Images)
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Russia boycotts UN court hearings as Ukraine seeks emergency order to halt hostilities
A man walks past a damaged vehicle and debris following Russian shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. Russia has launched a barrage of air and missile strikes on Ukraine early Thursday and Ukrainian officials said that Russian troops have rolled into the country from the north, east and south. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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Ukraine to confront Russia at International Court of Justice
Ukrainian artillerymen keep position in the Luhansk region on March 2, 2022. (Photo by Anatolii Stepanov / AFP) (Photo by ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images)
opinion
The West still has a responsibility to protect the people of Ukraine
Tina J. Park
world
World Court to hear Ukraine-Russia case March 7-8
IRPIN, UKRAINE - MARCH 1: Ukrainian serviceman cross the destroyed bridge on March 1, 2022 in Irpin, Ukraine. Russian forces continued to advance on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv as their invasion of its western neighbor entered its sixth day. Intense battles also continue in Ukraine's other major cities. (Photo by Anastasia Vlasova/Getty Images)
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Turkey, Armenia to hold talks on normalizing ties
A street vendor sells Turkish national flags at Mahmutpasa street, a middle-class shopping district, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues in Istanbul, Turkey, January 13, 2022. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
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China says ‘Uyghur tribunal’ is a lie
FILE PHOTO: A view of the Chinese Embassy plaque in London, Britain, October 24, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay
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Senator Raymond Setlakwe pushed for Canada to recognize Armenian genocide
Quebec entrepreneur and lawyer Raymond Setlakwe, 71, leaves the Senate on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Tuesday, June 20, 2000 after being sworn in as one of two new members of the Senate. (CP PHOTO/Jonathan Hayward)
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Beijing 2022 organizers receive Olympic flame amid calls for boycott
Vice President of the Chinese Olympic Committee Yu Zaiqing holds the Olympic flame during the Olympic flame handover ceremony at Panathinean stadium in Athens, on October 19, 2021. - The flame will be transported by torch relay to Beijing, China, which will host the Feb. 4-20, 2022 Winter Olympics. (Photo by Louisa GOULIAMAKI / AFP) (Photo by LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Architect of 1994 Rwanda genocide dies at 80
(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 18, 2008, former Rwanda army's Colonel Theoneste Bagosora sits at the Rwanda International Criminal Tribunal (ICTR) in Arusha. - Theoneste Bagosora, Rwandan army colone, the "brain" of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, died on September 26, 2021, at the age of 80, in Mali where he was serving his sentence for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. (Photo by Tony KARUMBA / AFP) (Photo by TONY KARUMBA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Hero of Hotel Rwanda sentenced to 25 years in prison after widely criticized trial
(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 02, 2020 "Hotel Rwanda" hero Paul Rusesabagina (C) in the pink inmate's uniform arriving at Nyarugenge Court of Justice in Kigali, Rwanda, surrounded by guards of Rwanda Correctional Service (RCS). - The mild-mannered hero of "Hotel Rwanda" credited with saving hundreds of lives during the 1994 genocide, Paul Rusesabagina evolved into Kigali's sharpest-tongued critic before being tried for terrorism. The unassuming hotel manager in a smartly-pressed suit became the world's most famous Rwandan after the film's release, but angered his government by using the Hollywood limelight to crusade for political change in his tightly-controlled homeland. (Photo by Simon Wohlfahrt / AFP) (Photo by SIMON WOHLFAHRT/AFP via Getty Images)
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Federal election campaign 2021: Singh at residential school grave site in Saskatchewan; leaders battle over health care
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and his wife Gurkiran Kaur Sidhu place flowers on a grave where 751 bodies were buried on the grounds of the Marieval Indian Residential School on Cowessess First Nation, Sask., Friday, Aug. 20, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
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Last living Khmer Rouge leader denies involvement in Cambodian genocide
Former Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan attends his appeal hearing at the courtroom of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, August 19, 2021. Nhet Sok Heng/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia/Handout via Reuters
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Ex-Khmer Rouge official Khieu Samphan appeals genocide verdict in Cambodia
In this photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Khieu Samphan, former Khmer Rouge head of state, sits in a court room before a hearing at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. The international tribunal to judge the criminal responsibility of former Khmer Rouge leaders for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians opened its session Friday to deliver its verdicts on charges of genocide and other crimes. (Mark Peters/Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia via AP)
opinion
For Indigenous women, Canada Day has never been a cause for celebration
Lorraine Whitman
world
Serbia and Montenegro clash over 1995 Srebrenica massacre
An ederly Bosnian Muslim couple look at names of victims of Srebrenica 1995 massacre, on June 8, 2021, at Srebrenica Memorial Cemetery, in Potocari. - UN judges confirmed on June 8, 2021, the genocide life sentence of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, Europe's worst act of bloodshed since World War II. (Photo by ELVIS BARUKCIC / AFP) (Photo by ELVIS BARUKCIC/AFP via Getty Images)
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Kamloops residential school has woken up world to ‘genocide’ in Canada, Bellegarde says
Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Perry Bellegarde pose for a portrait June 18, 2021 in Ottawa. DAVE CHAN / THE GLOBE AND MAIL
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NDP calls on Ottawa to recognize residential schools as genocide
NDP MP Leah Gazan rises during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, June 7, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic loses genocide appeal
A woman walks past a mural depicting former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, in Belgrade on June 8, 2021. - International judges will give their verdict on June 8, 2021 on an appeal by former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic against his genocide conviction over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, a UN court said on June 4, 2021. Mladic was sentenced to life in prison in 2017 for overseeing the massacre of some 8,000 Muslim men and boys, and for war crimes and crimes against humanity in general during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. (Photo by Andrej ISAKOVIC / AFP) (Photo by ANDREJ ISAKOVIC/AFP via Getty Images)
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China genocide motion smacks of ‘moral superiority,’ Senator says
Senator Peter Harder speaks with the media in the Foyer of the Senate in Ottawa, Friday, November 29, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Foster care is modern-day residential school system, says Inuk MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq
NDP MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq rises in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Thursday, May 13, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld