A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
Shirley Roach-baa passed away in August 2021, but her lifelong journey of learning and healing will continue to teach the rest of us for generations to come. Shirley is a survivor of the Shingwauk Indian Residential School who spoke on the national stage about the abuse and trauma she faced in that system…
Michael Linklater, one of the country’s premier three-on-three basketball players and a co-founder of Hoist the Hoops, describes how a new basketball court in River Landing is rooted in reconciliation. Linklater,who is Nehiyaw (Cree) from Thunderchild First Nation and grew up in Saskatoon, was part of a panel at CBC Radio’s…
A First Nation in northwestern Ontario says it has found 22 areas where human remains may be buried at the site of a former residential school. The Wauzhushk Onigum Nation, near Kenora, Ont., was “alerted” to the areas at the site of the former St. Mary’s Residential School in mid-August after using a cadaver dog to […]
Halifax officially has a new street name. The former Cornwallis Street is now Nora Bernard Street, named after the Mi’kmaq activist and residential school survivor. “It’s just incredible, it means so much,” says her daughter, Natalie MacLeod Gloade. Bernard led the largest class action lawsuit in Canadian history in support of 79,000 other…
