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Wabanaki Legal News Winter 1999 Compensation for Residential School Survivors by Patricia Doyle Bedwell Patricia is currently the head of the Transition Year Program at Henson College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She received her law degree at Dalhousie University. She is a Micmac and grew up in Bangor, ME. She graduated from John Bapst High School. Patricia is married and has one son. The ...

By Heidi Kuran To open the training session, Arlene Vrtar on Residential Schools and Abuse. She is a LPN and RSW and has extensive experience with alcoholism, drug abuse, overeating and smoking cessation. Arlene began by observing a moment of silence for all those who had suffered from the legacy of abuse from residential schools. Arlene began by asking the question, Why does the issue of ...