A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
A Haida Elder and residential school survivor is suing an Edmonton priest for what she says are “false and deeply hurtful” comments. Sphenia Jones from British Columbia alleges Fr. Marcin Mironiuk defamed survivors of Canada’s residential school system during a mass service in 2021. Mironiuk reportedly described the evidence of unmarked graves at residential schools […]
THUNDER BAY – Challenged to come up with a history project for her Grade 8 class, Annika Harrison decided it was time to have a very frank discussion with her father. The 13-year-old student at Woodcrest Public School knew her father, now in his mid-60s, had been traumatized while attending the Pelican Lake Residential School…
An Ochapowace First Nation man says going to ceremonies and participating in cultural events has been a big part in his healing from the trauma of residential schools. Ivan Isaac spent 10 years of his childhood in three different residential schools in Saskatchewan — Marieval Residential School, Gordon’s Residential School and finally…
A “Calgary” judge has declined the Catholic Church’s application to strike down a residential “school” survivor’s class action against them, allowing her defamation lawsuit to proceed. In his decision last week, J.R. Farrington said that the basic essentials in Haida Elder Sphenia Jones’s pleading of defamation over alleged denialist comments…
