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Unloved: Huronia’s Forgotten Children

Barri Cohen set out to uncover the story of her two long-dead half-brothers, whose lives were a microcosm of the larger tragedy of Canada’s disastrous treatment of intellectually disabled children at the Huronia Regional Centre in Orillia, Ontario

Until it was unceremoniously closed in 2009, the Huronia Regional Centre in Orillia, Ontario, was essentially a grim warehouse for developmentally disabled youth. Barri Cohen’s half-brothers, Alfred and Louis, lived and died there under abysmal conditions. Her heart-wrenching documentary, Unloved: Huronia’s Forgotten Children, which opens in Toronto on September 16, sheds light on an institution […]