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Alberta government will require annual ‘free speech reporting’ from post-secondary schools

‘Reconciliation is not dead,’ TRC commissioner tells Cape Breton audience

Reconciliation, Residential School, TRC

She said that she still has nightmares. For six-and-a-half years, as a Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner (TRC), Marie Wilson and her two counterparts, Murray Sinclair and Chief Wilton Littlechild, heard testimony of 7,000 survivors of Canada’s residential school system.“All I had to do was hear about what happened,” she said. “I didn’t have to live it. […]

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‘Man of compassion’: Indigenous leaders, residential school survivors on Pope Francis

Apologies, Reconciliation, Residential School

It’s been nearly three years since Pope Francis travelled to Canada to apologize for the Catholic Church’s role in residential schools. But for some Indigenous survivors, memories of the historic day remain fresh in their minds. “His statements of apology still have a lot of impact to a lot of us residential school survivors,” Piita […]

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