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23 April 2016

Residential-school survivors speak out about Catholic Church’s settlement shortfall

A legal miscue that allowed the Catholic Church to walk away from part of its promise to compensate survivors of Indian residential schools has former victims angry and frustrated
Vivian Ketchum, 51 Attended Cecilia Jeffrey residential school in Kenora, Ont., in the early 1970s.
News of the Catholic entities’ unfulfilled financial obligations made Vivian Ketchum “extremely angry,” she said. The money, she believes, could be used for a 24-hour youth crisis centre in Kenora, where indigenous youth suicide is epidemic.