Pope Francis apologizes to indigenous people of Canada for “deplorable” atrocities by Roman Church missionaries over centuries.

The Canadian government has appealed a federal court decision upholding a ruling that would require that it pay billions of dollars to indigenous children and their caregivers harmed by a discriminatory welfare system, saying it would instead seek to negotiate a deal.

A Canadian federal court has upheld a human rights tribunal compensation ruling that ordered Ottawa to pay $40,000 to First Nations children who suffered discrimination in the welfare system.

The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN), which represents First Nations in Canada's Saskatchewan, demands that a Roman Catholic Church document claiming that the church provided 25 million dollars in "in-kind services" to residential school survivors be immediately released.

Hundreds of unmarked graves, many believed to be children, have been found at the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cancels foreign tour to address ongoing anti-pipeline protests by indigenous people at home.

A government report has concluded that the high number of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada amounts to "genocide."