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Alberta officials’ role in 60s Scoop sessions was to ‘shut up and listen’ to survivors, says minister

Alberta held its final engagement session with survivors of the Sixties Scoop Thursday in Edmonton, and the Indigenous Relations Minister said it had been an opportunity for officials to take a back seat and listen.

“We have agreed from the beginning that the conversation has to be about the lived experience of the people and what happened to them, their right to talk about that, to put their truth out there and for us as government to kind of shut up and listen, to hear that,” said Richard Feehan.

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Sixties Scoop adoptees want to scuttle $800M settlement, say ‘it’s just not gonna be enough’

A group of Indigenous Sixties Scoop adoptees is trying to scuttle a proposed $800-million settlement announced last year by the federal government, CBC News has learned.

“Our mission right now is to put a stop to this,” said Priscilla Meeches, one of the Manitoba-based plaintiffs in the national class-action lawsuit.

“We need a better settlement than this because there’s too many of us out there and at the end of the day, it’s just not gonna be enough.”

Read more at CBC News