A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
Today, as we mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day, we confront the lasting impacts of the residential school system for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis in Canada. We come together to remember the children who were stolen from their communities, and those whose lives were…
It started with a napkin. Mission Public School District Indigenous Mentor teacher Peggy Janicki and her brother were visiting their mother, Mary O’Connal, at the hospital. O’Connal was a survivor of Lejac Residential School in Fort Saint James and was at Abbotsford Hospital with a broken hip. While workers were taking…
Newfoundland and Labrador’s premier delivered a solemn apology Friday to residential school survivors in southern Labrador, nearly six years after it was first promised. Andrew Furey’s apology to the NunatuKavut Community Council in a small gymnasium in Cartwright, N.L., was met with a standing ovation from…
Elders, church members and residents gathered in a small churchyard in Regina’s Cathedral neighbourhood Sunday. They were there to officially open the Westminster United Church healing garden, a churchyard reimagined and dedicated to reflection on Canada’s residential school history…
