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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 schools and buried in the cemetery to hide their deaths. It would be a shocking story if it were only true...

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? Many are. It started with a plan for industrial schools proposed by Mr. Nicholas Davin, a politici...

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 schools and buried in the cemetery to hide their deaths. It would be a shocking story if it were only true...

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 racist views and prejudice and plan to treat Indigenous children as lesser beings? How could religio...

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 for people to believe. — T. Alfred, Mohawk Scholar I write this with the weight of history, two hun...