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Federal budget cuts affect survivors of residential schools

Impacts in Atlantic Canada and across the country

by Jane Kirby

photo: Ben Powless
photo: Ben Powless

Jane Kirby of CKDU's Operation Wakeup interviews Maya Rolbin-Ghanie, a member of Missing Justice Montreal, and Tarry Hewitt, of Aboriginal Survivors for Healing on Prince Edward Island, about the cutting of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation in the recent Federal budget. The cuts, which took effect March 31, will impact 134 programs for residential school survivors nationally, including 7 in Atlantic Canada.

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