Interlocutor on unmarked graves ‘very concerned’ by feds’ $2M deal with international organization

Kimberly Murray says she’s “very concerned” Canada’s $2-million technical agreement with the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) lacks transparency and places the commission under the influence of bureaucrats at Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC)…

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B.C. will formally recognize National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation will be enshrined in B.C. law to honour the strength and resilience of residential school survivors and remember the children who never came home. This new provincial statutory day of commemoration responds to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Call to Action No. 80…

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Decades after my grandmother’s residential school abuse, I wear my ribbon skirt with pride

I step foot onto the sprawling campus that I now call home, almost 1,000 kilometres away from where I grew up. Nerves flutter through my body and I tremble as I move toward the stunning red brick and ivy buildings. My eyes go wide as I take in the impressive campus. The Grade 12 students…

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I needed to feel my mother’s presence after possible gravesites were found at her residential school

In January 2023,  the community of Wauzhushk Onigum Nation in northwestern Ontario confirmed the discovery of evidence of 170 “plausible burials” at a former residential school site, following a round of ground-penetrating radar searches that detected the anomalies. It was same residential school that Vivian Ketchum’s late mother…

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