Residential school victims awarded $1.9-billion in compensation</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Residential school victims awarded $1.9-billion in compensation"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Residential,school,victims,awarded,$1,9-billion,in,compensation"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">24-11-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Residential school victims awarded $1.9-billion in compensation</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/img_news/img_5ibEvjKYWx6Zc2yXNdlc_0.jpeg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" ><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Calgary, Canada (CBC): Ottawa is offering survivors of residential school abuse up to $30,000 each in a $1.9-billion compensation package released Wednesday morning. As many as 86,000 aboriginal Canadians who attended church-run schools across the country may be eligible for payments under the plan. Tens of thousands of aboriginals were taken from their families and deprived of their culture, and many were sexually or physically abused by school staff. The average survivor is older than 60. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/calgary/story/ca-residential-schools20051123.html " target="blank">www.cbc.ca/calgary/story/ca-residential-schools20051123.html </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show