Awareness of residential school harms has increased, but more reconciliation work needed: report

A new report measuring Canada’s progress towards reconciliation shows that while awareness of the harms caused by residential schools has increased, more work is needed. This is the latest information revealed in the second national Canadian Reconciliation Barometer report. It measures the progress towards reconciliation since…

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Anishinaabe elder fights to rid himself of name imposed in forced baptism 75 years ago

Ejinagosi Kistabish still remembers clinging to the side of a taxi as he watched his parents drive away from Saint-Marc-de-Figuery residential school in Amos, Que. after they showed up for a visit. Kistabish, now 75, says he still has “to cope with that scene” — the snowfall, the November chill, his tears and seven-year-old hands…

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New Maskwacis early learning centre honours educator, residential school survivor Theresa Wildcat

A new early learning centre in Maskwacis, Alta., is a place to nurture imagination and growth while also fulfilling treaty rights to education, according to speakers at the grand opening on Friday. The centre for children in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten is named after Theresa Wildcat, a residential school survivor who became…

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Bills to commemorate Orange Shirt Day and Louis Riel pass final vote in Manitoba

A bill to make Orange Shirt Day a statutory holiday in Manitoba has passed its final vote in the legislature. The bill will ensure that workers under provincial jurisdiction get a day off, or holiday pay if they work, every Sept. 30. The day, also known as the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, commemorates […]

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