A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
Tkemlúps te Secwépemc and the Archdiocese of Vancouver will sign a “sacred covenant” this coming Easter Sunday, committing the church to share documents about the former Kamloops Residential School. Tkemlúps te Secwépemc Kúkpi7 Chief Rosanne Casimir says the documents are critical to the work of finding the children who never made it home from Residential […]
The Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC) is opening its doors to the UBC Vancouver community to highlight its important role on campus. Ahead of the first Open House on April 15, we spoke with Executive Director, Kristin Kozar about how the IRSHDC staff support Residential School Survivors and her plans to expand the […]
A charitable organization in Winnipeg is donating $5 million to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation towards building the NCTR a new home. The new home will house thousands of records from survivors of residential schools. “Thank god our stories are going to be safe and thank goodness there is going to be a…
A Senate committee examining barriers to the release of records of deaths at residential schools heard Tuesday that federal departments and agencies should make information disclosure processes more accessible and informal. “We heard that the privacy and information regimes cannot work if the government itself does not believe in them,” said Sen. Brian Francis, chair […]
