As It Happens7:11Pope Francis set the stage for reconciliation with residential school apology, says Phil Fontaine Phil Fontaine spent decades pushing the Catholic Church to apologize for its ...

I went to the residential school in Norpos (ph). And I went through a lot of stuff. And I lost all my family. Phil Fontaine, Former National Chief, Assembly of First Nations: We have been pressing ...

Former Chief of the Assembly of First Nations. Spoke out publicly about abusive residential schools. Phil Fontaine is the former Chief of the Assembly of First Nations. He was the first to speak ...

apologize for Indigenous residential schools Warning: This story deals with disturbing subject matter that may upset and trigger some readers. Discretion is advised. Phil Fontaine took no speaking ...

Former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations Phil Fontaine spent years fighting for an official apology from the Catholic Church for its role in residential school abuses. Fontaine told ...

Phil Fontaine, former chief of the Assembly of First Nations and a residential school survivor, urged the crowd to forgive in remarks delivered before Francis arrived: “We will never achieve ...

The former politician was forced to attend a residential school in Chesterfield Inlet ... national chief of the Assembly of First Nations Phil Fontaine. "Pope Francis was a great man.

as Assembly of First Nations Chief Phil Fontaine watches in Ottawa, on June 11, 2008, the day Harper formally apologized on behalf of the Canadian government for the residential school system.

The 1990s would see the paper start to publish the hidden secrets residential-school survivors had been long suppressing. In an October, 1990, Globe article, Phil Fontaine – at the time grand ...

Bert Fontaine and his younger sibling endured and overcame traumatic experiences at a church-run residential school. The older brother of former Assembly of First Nations national chief Phil ...