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In 1998, the Ontario government apologized to the sisters and gave them a $4 million settlement for the years spent on display.
For NPR News, I'm Dan Karpenchuk in Toronto.
The 62 artifacts include a 100-year-old Inuit kayak, wampum belts, war clubs, masks, and beaded moccasins.
Pope Leo turned them over to the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops during an audience at the Vatican.
A statement by the church said the pieces were a sign of dialogue, respect and fraternity.
They were part of a controversial collection that sparked a debate over cultural items taken from Indigenous peoples during colonial periods and the church's role in helping the Canadian government's forced assimilation policy, which some historians have called cultural genocide.
The items will first go to the Canadian Museum of History, where they will be identified, and then a decision will be made about where they should ultimately go.
For NPR News, I'm Dan Karpenchuk in Toronto.
The anti-tariff ad campaign featured clips of an address by former President Ronald Reagan saying tariffs do not work.
An infuriated Trump terminated all trade talks with Canada calling the ads a fraud.
The government of Ontario, which paid $75 million Canadian for the ads, planned to pull them on Monday, still leaving them to be seen by millions of Americans watching the World Series.
Now Trump says they should have been taken off the air immediately, and he announced a further 10% tariff on Canadian goods as punishment.
A Canadian government official says Prime Minister Mark Carney was not given any warning about the added tariff.
Carney is in Malaysia for the ASEAN summit and has not spoken to Trump.
For NPR News, I'm Dan Karpenchuk in Toronto.
The anti-tariff ad campaign featured clips of an address by former President Ronald Reagan saying tariffs do not work.
An infuriated Trump terminated all trade talks with Canada calling the ads a fraud.
The government of Ontario, which paid $75 million Canadian for the ads, planned to pull them on Monday, still leaving them to be seen by millions of Americans watching the World Series.
Now Trump says they should have been taken off the air immediately, and he announced a further 10% tariff on Canadian goods as punishment.
A Canadian government official says Prime Minister Mark Carney was not given any warning about the added tariff.