Tens of thousands of indigenous children taken to Canadian residential schools run mostly by the Catholic Church lived a "paramilitary" lifestyle, waking early to pray, waiting rigidly in lines and enduring regular beatings, survivors said.

Shoal Lake 40 First Nation has been under a drinking-water advisory since 1997. The community’s new water treatment plant will finally provide safe water.

The end of an era on a tobacco farm in Southern Ontario. Filmed in 2015.