Iqaluit residents grieve a tragedy far away, yet close to home
Nunavut's capital held a vigil for 215 children discovered at a residential school mass gravesite in Kamloops.
T-shirts, shoes, stuffed animals and signs bearing slogans such as “Check every school” were among the items left in Iqaluit Square Friday afternoon during a vigil to honor the lives of the 215 children whose bodies were recently found buried on the grounds of a residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia.
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