A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck has committed that an NDP government would apologize and take ownership for the damage caused to First Nations and Métis people at the Île-à-la-Crosse and Timber Bay residential schools. “The lasting damage and trauma caused to First Nations and Métis people in Northern Saskatchewan at these residential schools is still […]
The revelation convulsed all of Canada. Ground-penetrating radar had found possible signs of 215 unmarked graves at a former residential school in British Columbia run by the Catholic Church that the government had once used to assimilate Indigenous children forcibly taken from their families. It was the first of some 80 former schools where indications […]
Manitoba businesses are trying to decide how best to mark Orange Shirt Day, now that the national day for reflection on the impacts of the residential school system will be observed as a statutory holiday in the province. The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30, also referred to as Orange Shirt Day, has […]
The Canadian Medical Association says it is “deeply ashamed” and “deeply sorry” for the past and present harms the medical profession has caused to First Nation, Inuit and Métis Peoples. The apology was issued in a ceremony in Victoria held on the traditional territory of the lək̓ʷəŋiʔnəŋ-speaking people of Songhees and Xwsepsum Nations. It also featured singers, […]
