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"You’re not alone." That’s the message to the family of Const. Andrew Hong from Brenda Orr, the widow of OPP Const. David Mounsey, who was killed in the line of
Two traditional knowledge keepers say that looking up at the stars in the night sky will help ground Indigenous people in who they are.
National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation The above represent a potential 33 Calls to Action for which the federal government is directly or jointly accountable. And not a word was actually changed! What does that say about the government’s commitment to honesty, transparency, accountability – and respect? People in general and Indigenous people in particular have had their trust in governments at all levels eroded by the deceit, manipulations and overly loose playing with language. Hiding behind false statements that do not reflect the truth; broadcasting a misleading message that sig...
June marks six years since the TRC delivered their Calls to Action on the legacy of the Indian residential school system. Six months later, in December 2015, the commissioners delivered their final report, encompassing six volumes, and called what happened in the schools “cultural genocide.” Calls to Action 71 through 76 deal with the children who went missing during their attendance in residential schools. Falling under the subtitle of “Children and Burial Information,” it calls, in part, for “records on the deaths of Aboriginal children in the care of residential school authoritie...
Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative The finding of the remains of 215 children in an unmarked mass grave on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School announced last week by the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation leadership, provides a stark reminder. Six years after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on Indian residential schools levelled 94 Calls to Action, few of them have been completed. (LEVI LANDRY / iNFOnews.ca) June 01, 2021 - 6:30 AM The finding of the remains of 215 children in an unmarked mass grave on the grounds of the K...