More than six decades ago, in 1957, a lone Mountie assigned to the nearby town of Watson Lake, Y.T., along with a few determined students, launched one of the first known efforts to bring a residential school predator to justice.. Through deceit and intimidation, the Church kept victims silent and empowered a serial sexual abuser.
This year, the community’s young chief, Harlan Schilling, had the building demolished, part of a plan to heal old wounds and reverse the cultural erosion that accelerated with the school’s construction. The abuse at Lower Post was sexual and physical – all proven in court during a flurry of police investigations and civil lawsuits in the 1990s and early 2000s that brought the enduring trauma of residential schools to national recognition.
The latest federal modelling shows the record numbers would play out whether the new Omicron variant takes root in Canada or whether the Delta variant remains the dominant strain. Canada is threatening trade retribution against the United States – including U.S. auto workers – if Washington approves legislation on made-in-America electric vehicle incentives that could devastate auto assembly in Canada.