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13 October 2017

Canada to pay millions in suit over forced adoptions

For decades, Canadian social workers forcibly separated indigenous children from their families, putting them up for adoption by nonnative families in Canada and around the world.
On Friday, the Canadian government took a step to make amends for that adoption program, which began in the 1960s and lasted until the 1980s, by agreeing to pay 750 million Canadian dollars in legal settlements.