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The National Trudeau exonerates wrongfully convicted Chief Poundmaker
In the hills of west-central Saskatchewan, on the reserve that bears the name of a revered and wrongly convicted First Nations leader, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau set right a historic wrong: exonerating the Cree Chief Poundmaker and recognizing his true legacy.
- 2019
- 00:02:47
- 13-14
- Added on: 07/23/2019
The National The legacy of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike
Winnipeg is marking one of the seminal strikes in Canadian history. One hundred years ago, tens of thousands of workers walked off the job in what would come to be known as the Winnipeg General Strike.
- 2019
- 00:02:51
- 13-14
- Added on: 07/23/2019
The National Indian day school survivors await settlement
It’s taken a decade to hammer out a compensation package for survivors of Indian day schools, but this week a federal court in Winnipeg is holding hearings on a tentative settlement worth $1.4 billion.
- 2019
- 00:02:11
- 13-14
- Added on: 07/23/2019
CBC News Quebec's Bill 101 is official
At the end of a long hot summer, Bill 101, the French language charter, is adopted on August 26, 1977, kicking off the transformation from a traditionally bilingual Quebec into a unilingual French province. Bill 101 is shock therapy for what the PQ describe as a sick society that Quebec has become, reports CBC's David Bazay. The new French language ...
- 1977
- 00:03:06
- 13-14
- Added on: 07/22/2019
CBC News Who are the Métis?
Who is and who isn't “Métis” is a controversial topic. We hear different perspectives from the leader of the Manitoba Métis Federation and the self-described Grand Chief of an Eastern Métis organization from Nova Scotia.
- 2019
- 00:05:49
- 9-12
- Added on: 07/22/2019
CBC Radio One PM Pierre Trudeau sends telegram to Canadians after Summit Series
After Canada's victorious hockey game against the Soviets, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau drafts a congratulatory telegram for Team Canada in Moscow. He says the win is especially remarkable because the players were able to pull up from behind. For the past couple of hours, all regular activity was put on hold as Canada watched game 8 on television sets ...
- 1972
- 00:01:28
- 9-12
- Added on: 07/22/2019
Voice of the Pioneer Black refugees in Ontario
Prof. Daniel Hill continues in the second of a 1979 four-part series of interviews on black history in Ontario with CBC Radio's Bill McNeil. Hill talks about the community volunteer groups that worked so hard to help black refugees arriving in Ontario on the Underground Railway in the mid-19th century, why Ontario was their main destination, the basis of the ...
- 1979
- 00:09:13
- 13-14
- Added on: 07/03/2019
Breakaway Uncovering the history of slavery in Canada
Uncovering some hard truths about Canada's history of slavery. George Tombs is the translator of Canada's Forgotten Slaves: Two Hundred Years of Bondage, originally written by Marcel Trudel in 1960. It was one of the first history books to map out who used slaves, and painted a picture of who those slaves were. Tombs joins host Saroja Coelho to explain how ...
- 2018
- 00:13:47
- 13-14
- Added on: 07/03/2019
Absolutely Canadian The End of the Road
Follow this real life group of American war resisters and free-spirited Canadians and Europeans, escaping conformity and comfort for greener pastures. Not only did this eclectic group of dreamers, artists and intellectuals find Lund, Canada, they accidentally found each other. Overeducated, underemployed and ill-equipped, this adventurous crew finds love, shares lovers and experiments with everything. Not always a utopia, the ...
- 2018
- 00:44:35
- 13-14
- Added on: 05/27/2019
The National Trudeau delivers official apology for Canada's role in the MS St. Louis
The Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler tested the limits of Canada's humanity in the lead up to the Second World War and Canada's government failed that test "miserably," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said. Trudeau made an apology in the House of Commons for the 1939 decision by the Canadian government to turn away a boatload of German Jews seeking refuge ...
- 2018
- 00:06:17
- 13-14
- Added on: 04/03/2019
The National Private George Price: Paying homage to a fallen Canadian
This year's Remembrance Day marks 100 years since the end of the First World War. In this week's Dispatch, the CBC's Nahlah Ayed travels to Belgium to bring us the story of Canadian Private George Price, the last British Empire soldier killed in the First World War.
- 2018
- 00:09:55
- 13-14
- Added on: 04/03/2019
The National Justin Trudeau makes historic apology for past governments' mistreatment of Inuit with tuberculosis
Justin Trudeau has made a historic apology for past governments’ “colonial” and “purposeful” mistreatment of Inuit people with tuberculosis, which included taking them from their families.
- 2019
- 00:04:33
- 13-14
- Added on: 03/26/2019
The National Residential school survivor in search of apology from Pope Francis
As the Pope prepares for a historic summit on sexual abuse in the priesthood, a Canadian Indigenous woman is getting ready to take her painful story to the Vatican in search of an apology from the head of the Catholic Church.
- 2019
- 00:02:43
- 13-14
- Added on: 03/25/2019
CBC News Bernie Francis reads "In Flanders Fields" in Mi'kmaq
For Remembrance Day, Mi'kmaw linguist Bernie Francis reads his translation of John McCrae's war poem "In Flanders Fields."
- 2017
- 00:01:37
- 9-12
- Added on: 03/25/2019
The National Woman learns names of three Canadian soldiers who saved her life during WWII
A photo captures the moment in time that transformed the lives of three Canadian soldiers and a baby girl during the Second World War. The baby was abandoned by her mother, the soldiers found her before being separated by an ocean. Now they're sharing a reunion — of sorts.
- 2019
- 00:04:00
- 13-14
- Added on: 03/12/2019
News in Review - February 2019 Bomb on Board: The Mystery of CP Flight 21
The mysterious crash of CP Flight 21 five decades ago remains one of the largest unsolved mass murders in Canadian history. The commercial flight took off from Vancouver, bound for Whitehorse on July 8, 1965, when it exploded in mid-air over the B.C interior. All 52 people on board were killed. Weather was ruled out as a factor. The investigation ...
- 2019
- 00:18:46
- 13-14
- Added on: 02/05/2019
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News in Review - January 2019 Sir John A. Macdonald: A Legacy of Controversy
Sir John A. Macdonald has become a controversial figure in modern times. Of course, he was Canada’s first prime minister, responsible for bringing about Confederation and building a rail line across the country. But in this era of truth and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, his image has become a symbol of oppression to some. It was his policies that saw ...
- 2019
- 00:13:26
- 13-14
- Added on: 01/30/2019
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The National Saskatchewan's apology for Sixties Scoop leaves survivors with mixed feelings
Starting in the 1950s, about 20,000 Indigenous children across Canada were seized from their birth families and relocated to non-Indigenous homes, where many were stripped of their language, culture and any ties to their families. For some, the apology was long overdue and welcomed. For others, the words rang hollow.
- 2019
- 00:02:47
- 13-14
- Added on: 01/22/2019
The National 'Battle' over as Trudeau, Trump, Pena Nieto sign 'new NAFTA'
The road to rewrite the North American trade agreement was a "battle," U.S. President Donald Trump said as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto joined him for a signing ceremony on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires.
- 2018
- 00:04:53
- 13-14
- Added on: 01/07/2019
News in Review - December 2018 Goodbye NAFTA, Hello CUSMA: Did Canada Get a Fair Trade Deal?
After more than a year of negotiations, Canada, the U.S. and Mexico finally have a new trade agreement – the Canada–United States–Mexico Agreement. CUSMA (or USMCA as its named by President Trump) replaces NAFTA and maintains the elimination of many tariffs between the three countries, to facilitate the free flow of goods. But many argue that the Trudeau government had to give ...
- 2018
- 00:12:32
- 13-14
- Added on: 12/21/2018
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The National A historic vote in the Quebec election
This may be the province’s most important election in decades. Not since 1970 has a party other than the Liberals or Parti québécois held power in Quebec. Now the Coalition avenir Québec, a right-of-centre party that has never held power, will form a majority government in the province, dealing a historic blow to the incumbent Liberals.
- 2018
- 00:04:14
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/06/2018
The National Three First World War soldiers identified as Canadians
The remains of three Canadian soldiers who died fighting in northern France during the First World War have recently been identified. The three soldiers from Winnipeg fought in the Battle of Hill 70 in August 1917, the first major action to be led by a Canadian commander. Canadian forces suffered 9,200 casualties in the battle.
- 2018
- 00:02:22
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/06/2018
The House What would Canada look like without the Indian Act?
For the first time in a while, former prime minister Paul Martin, architect of the Kelowna Accord, says he's happy with where the federal government is steering its relationship with Canada's Indigenous peoples. During this week's cabinet shuffle, the federal government announced it would split Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) into two separate ministries with the goal of replacing ...
- 2017
- 00:18:55
- 13-14
- Added on: 10/11/2018
Power & Politics Government agrees to end sex-based status discrimination in Indian Act after Senate push
"They created this problem – not First Nations people, not Indigenous women," says Senator Murray Sinclair.
- 2017
- 00:08:31
- 13-14
- Added on: 10/10/2018
The National Canada should apologize for forced adoptions: Senate report
Between 1945 and 1971, an estimated 350,000 Canadian women were forced to give up their babies for adoption because they weren't married.
- 2018
- 00:03:56
- 13-14
- Added on: 09/12/2018
