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Article content I just read John Milnes’ letter and could not agree more! It was bang on! Media manipulation and inadequacies were exposed in the horrendous story about innocent, helpless Indigenous children being buried and forgotten in a cemetery on the grounds of a residential school in Kamloops, B.C. According to some accounts, the cemetery was a mass grave (the term usually describing war crimes or massacres) of children who were neglected, abused, and abandoned in the residential school...

Article content Why red? My father, like many, immigrated here in 1949 from a war-tom country to a land of opportunity. I wore red out of respect for those that fought for our freedom, died or returned home “broken.” We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Sudbury letter: Why I wore orange and red on Canada Day Back to video Why orange, next to my heart? For the Indigenous children that never returned home from residential schools. Who’s responsible...

Article content I just read John Milnes’ letter and could not agree more! It was bang on! Media manipulation and inadequacies were exposed in the horrendous story about innocent, helpless Indigenous children being buried and forgotten in a cemetery on the grounds of a residential school in Kamloops, B.C. According to some accounts, the cemetery was a mass grave (the term usually describing war crimes or massacres) of children who were neglected, abused, and abandoned in the residential school...

Article content We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Is your faith hypocritical?       Back to video Hypocrisy is not living up to what you say you profess. Actions speak louder than words. You probably know religious people who say one thing and do the opposite. In 1800s Canada, the majority considered themselves religious. Religious people legislated the racist residential schools and religious people ran the schools. How could they have ...

Article content Duff Crerar/Grande Prairie Church of Christ “Before there can be reconciliation, there must be truth, and this is a threshold that we in Canada have yet to cross.” – Matthew Coon Come, James Bay Cree, past Chief Assembly of First Nations. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Faith: The Churches and the Residential Schools: No excuses, just a partial and painful explanation Back to video When lies rule, warriors reveal new truths f...

This past Thursday, a motion by NDP MP Leah Gazan asking the Canadian government to formally recogni...

Dr. Peter Bryce and Duncan Campbell Scott believed in assimilating the country’s Indigenous peoples into majority white culture, but had different ideas about how it should happen.

Some may find this column disturbing, as it is about the deaths of Indigenous people a century or more ago. Moreover, in quoting from a 1922 report, some of the words used then (e.g. Indians) are . . .

As Canada’s residential school system gathered homicidal force in 1909, two formidable bureaucrats wrestled for control of its direction in backroom Ottawa. Dr. Peter Bryce, the crusading chief medical officer of health in the Department of Indian Affairs, wanted the federal government to admit that tuberculosis was out of control in the country’s Indigenous school population, and commit to a wide-ranging effort to improve student health even if...

For immediate assistance for those who may need it, the National Indian Residential School Crisis Line is available 24 hours a day at 1-866-925-4419. Residential schools that operated for a . . .