Decades after my grandmother’s residential school abuse, I wear my ribbon skirt with pride
I needed to feel my mother’s presence after possible gravesites were found at her residential school
Alberta government will require annual ‘free speech reporting’ from post-secondary schools

‘People have to know’: Children’s book focuses on residential school experience

Elders, Every Child Matters, Reconciliation, Residential School

It started with a napkin. Mission Public School District Indigenous Mentor teacher Peggy Janicki and her brother were visiting their mother, Mary O’Connal, at the hospital. O’Connal was a survivor of Lejac Residential School in Fort Saint James and was at Abbotsford Hospital with a broken hip. While workers were taking…

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‘We are sorry’: Newfoundland and Labrador makes first apology for residential schools

Reconciliation, Residential School

Newfoundland and Labrador’s premier delivered a solemn apology Friday to residential school survivors in southern Labrador, nearly six years after it was first promised. Andrew Furey’s apology to the NunatuKavut Community Council in a small gymnasium in Cartwright, N.L., was met with a standing ovation from…

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Regina United Church garden designated as space for reflection on Canada’s residential school history

Reconciliation, Residential School

Elders, church members and residents gathered in a small churchyard in Regina’s Cathedral neighbourhood Sunday. They were there to officially open the Westminster United Church healing garden, a churchyard reimagined and dedicated to reflection on Canada’s residential school history…

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