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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Leyland Ceccoin Toronto

Canada supreme court refuses to hear appeal in blow to residential school survivors

Names of lives lost to residential schools are displayed as people take part in ceremonies for the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation in Ottawa on 30 September.
Names of lives lost to residential schools are displayed in ceremonies for the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation in Ottawa on 30 September. Photograph: Sean Kilpatrick/AP

Canada’s supreme court has declined to hear an appeal brought by a group of Indigenous residential school survivors, dealing a major blow to their decade-long fight against federal government over thousands of unreleased documents.

Survivors of St Anne’s Indian residential school had hoped the country’s top court would take their case, which alleges Canada’s federal government withheld crucial evidence in determining compensation for victims of abuse at the school in northern Ontario.

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