A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
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…
The Manitoba government introduced a bill in the legislature Monday to make Sept. 30 — the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation — a statutory holiday. Giving workers under the province’s jurisdiction the day off would allow them to remember the impact of the residential school system on Indigenous children, Premier Wab Kinew said…
he Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania was the first government-run residential school in North America. Earlier this fall, the remains of two boys, who died there more than a century ago, were returned to their tribes in South Dakota, over 2,000 kilometres away. It’s a process that took six years — and has only […]
A charity that makes quilts for residential school survivors, based in Timmins, Ont., has received special recognition at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s Inclusive Growth Awards. Vanessa Genier started Quits for Survivors in 2021 to honour, and bring a little joy, to survivors of residential schools, day schools and the Sixties Scoop…
