A collection of news and internal articles shared regarding the latest updates in discovery, truth, and reconciliation surrounding residential schools.
A report released Wednesday by the Yellowhead Institute took aim at the federal government’s lack of progress in implementing calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation’s final report that was released in 2015. The report writers have said that they are “are exasperated by the deep chasm between the two and frustrated by…
Canada has been so slow to carry out recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that an Indigenous-led think tank says it has decided to stop publishing an annual report tracking its progress. “At first, the project invoked hope and determination. If only the Canadian public knew about their government’s lack of…
In her groundbreaking novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the writer Harriet Beecher Stowe introduces the character Topsy. She is a young, enslaved girl who has been abused and treated like property. When asked where she came from, she replies, “I was never born, I just growed…
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…
