WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing.

The Alberta government will announce funding today for research into unmarked burial sites and undocumented deaths at residential schools across the province.

Premier Jason Kenney and Rick Wilson, the minister of Indigenous relations, are holding a news conference this morning.

It begins at 11 a.m. MT and you can watch it live here.

Alberta’s decision to fund research follows the discovery last month of a burial site adjacent to the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in B.C.’s southern Interior.

Preliminary findings from a survey using ground-penetrating radar suggest the site contains the remains