News & Updates
A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
‘Reconciliation is not dead,’ TRC commissioner tells Cape Breton audience
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. […]
‘Man of compassion’: Indigenous leaders, residential school survivors on Pope Francis
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 […]
Pope wasn’t perfect but showed us another path
I have seldom been more conflicted than when Pope Francis wore a headdress. Wilton Littlechild, a former commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, gave the pontiff the headdress after he delivered an apology in 2022 for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in the residential school system. I felt confused and triggered, and […]