Protesters on Sunday toppled a statute of Egerton Ryerson — one of the key figures behind Canada’s residential school system, which separated some 150,000 Indigenous children from their homes — amid growing anger over the Catholic Church’s refusal to issue an apology for its role in the abuse students faced.

Activists in Canada topple statue, demand apology from Pope amid reckoning over death of Indigenous children at residential schools

Protesters on Sunday toppled a statute of Egerton Ryerson - one of the key figures behind Canada's residential school system, which separated some 150,000 Indigenous children from their homes - amid growing anger over the Catholic Church's refusal to issue an apology for its role in the abuse students faced.