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Canada discovers 751 unmarked graves at former residential school | Canada | The Guardian

A First Nation in Canada’s Saskatchewan province is treating a now-defunct residential school as a “crime scene” following the discovery of 751 unmarked graves just weeks after a similar discovery in British Columbia prompted a fresh reckoning over the country’s colonial past.

Chief Cadmus Delorme of the Cowessess First Nation said that the graves were found on the site of the Marieval Indian residential school, also known as Grayson, after a search with ground-penetrating radar was launched on 2 June.

“This is not a mass grave site. These are unmarked graves,” said Delorme at a press conference on Thursday morning, adding that the discovery has “reopened the pain” that many suffered at the school. “The grave site is there. It is real.”

From the 19th century, more than 150,000 First Nations children were forced to attend state-funded Christian schools as part of a program to assimilate them into Canadian society.

The children were forced to convert to Christianity and not allowed to speak their native languages. Many were beaten and verbally abused, and thousands died from disease, neglect and suicide.

Cowessess First Nation said that the number of unmarked graves at the site is “the most significantly substantial to date in Canada”. …

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… The police complaints watchdog concluded the evidence “did not suggest that an officer may have acted in a way that justified disciplinary proceedings or committed a criminal offence, however, our investigation highlighted several areas of learning for [the] force and the officers involved in the incident”.

It also found “no evidence to suggest the complainant’s ethnicity was a factor in the decision to use force against him”.

Mombeyarara, 35, works at the Royal Manchester infirmary. His partner and his son’s mother, Beatrice Lovane, died after a fatal reaction to painkillers in August 2016. Her death received national media coverage after a coroner found paramedics failed to provide her with the most basic care and accused her of faking her illness.

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Court finds Trump lawyer made ‘false and misleading’ statements and suspends license pending consideration of possible disciplinary action

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More than 150 feared dead in Miami apartment block collapse | Boing Boing

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Miami building collapse: one dead as rescue crews say 51 unaccounted for | Miami | The Guardian

At least one person was killed, 10 injured and dozens more unaccounted for on Thursday after a condominium building in Miami collapsed in the early hours.

Rescue crews were searching for survivors through the rubble of the 12-storey Champlain Towers South condo in Surfside, which came down at about 1.30am. Authorities said as many as 51 people were unaccounted for.

Witnesses said the sound of the collapse was “like a bomb going off”. The Miami-Dade department of emergency management reported that about 70 of the development’s 130 apartments were destroyed.

Officials said at a morning press conference that the reason for the collapse was not yet known.

“It’s the unimaginable,” Daniella Levine Cava, the Miami-Dade mayor, said. “A massive search and rescue mission is under way. We are going to do everything we can possibly to identify and rescue those who have been trapped in the rubble.”

More than 80 fire-rescue crews attended the scene in Surfside, a small, oceanfront city just north of Miami Beach. Early video of the aftermath of the collapse showed a boy being pulled from the wreckage, one of 35 people rescued alive, the Miami-Dade commission said.

“They brought dogs who can sniff for survivors in the rubble,” Eliana Salzhauer, a Surfside commissioner, told the Miami Herald. “They aren’t turning up very much. No one is celebrating anyone being pulled out.” …

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