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On Thursday, Canada marked the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a date meant to commemorate and honor the lost Indigenous children and survivors of the country’s residential schools.

Since May 2021, hundreds of unmarked graves were discovered on residential properties, spurring calls for accountability from the governments that funded them and the churches which often ran them. 

Survivors and advocates have been calling for recognition and reparations for the people forced into these schools.

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