The Vancouver Canucks first lit Rogers Arena with orange Monday evening and they plan to keep doing so indefinitely, the team has confirmed to Postmedia News. After last week’s news that the remains of 215 children had been found on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School the Canucks announced on Monday that they would light up the building in orange in their memory and in recognition of the collective tragedy that Canada’s.
The Toronto Transit Commission paused all of its vehicles for two minutes of silence on Tuesday to honour the 215 children whose remains were discovered on the grounds of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.
“As community leaders and elected heads of our respective First Nations and municipal governments, Chief Whitecalf, Chief Okemow, Chief Moccasin, Chief Swiftwolfe, Chief Semaganis, Mayor Leslie, and Mayor Gillan of the Battlefords Regional Community Coalition mourn the loss of 215 children at Kamloops Indian Residential School. We grieve with Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation and all other First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities. We honour the memory of their stolen children and support calls to fully investigate, document and commemorate the violence of all residential school sites. “The atrocities uncovered at Kamloops Indian Residential School are by no means exceptional. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada has described the operations of Canada’s residential school system as cultural genocide. Official records show 51 child deaths at Kamloops Indian Residential School in the 88 years it operated. The disparity between this number and the number of c
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