{"id":442093,"date":"2026-01-30T02:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/442093\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T02:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:38:10","slug":"ile-a-la-crosse-school-victims-sign-proposed-settlement-with-canadian-government-saskatoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/442093\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00cele-\u00e0-la-Crosse School victims sign proposed settlement with Canadian government &#8211; Saskatoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy Grace Miller<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGlobal News\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted January 29, 2026 9:20 pm\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>After years of legal back-and-forth, the former students of <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/\u00eele-\u00e0-la-crosse\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00cele-a-la-Crosse<\/a> School and the Government of Canada have signed on to a proposed settlement agreement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Survivors of the school had been excluded from the residential school\u2019s settlement agreement because it was determined not to meet the federal definition.<\/p>\n<p>Talks in 2019 between Metis Nation Saskatchewan, the federal government and a committee representing survivors failed to produce an agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Metis Nation Justice Minister Brennan Merasty worked with the government to reach the settlement and has experienced the pain that led to this point first hand.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe see the disconnect in our communities and what it\u2019s led us to, but we\u2019re a resilient people. Our family structures are grounded. We\u2019re strong in our culture and we\u2019ll work through this together,\u201d said Brennan.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>By the letter of the agreement, it is possible for students to be compensated between $10,000 and $15,000.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian government will also give $10 million to create a non-profit organization to allocate funds to support healing, language protection, and commemoration of former students.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11639735\/what-is-nipah-virus-disease-outbreak\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769740689_235_GettyImages-1328468075-e1660150517519.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tWhat is Nipah virus? 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It was a long time waiting \u2014 our survivors get to finally turn the page and focus on the healing and coming back to who they are, discovering their roots and their well-being,\u201d says Brennan.<\/p>\n<p>Merasty says financial compensation alone won\u2019t address the harms students faced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to carry these scars, these memories, these traumas with us for generations to come,\u201d says Merasty.<\/p>\n<p>The Government of Canada will ask a federal court to approve the agreement in March.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Grace Miller Global News Posted January 29, 2026 9:20 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,182926,182925,44,182927,182116],"class_list":["post-442093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ile-a-la-crosse","tag-ile-a-la-crosse-school","tag-news","tag-residental-schools","tag-truth-and-reconciliation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}