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2 days ago

Here's how the GTA marked the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation | CBC News

The Greater Toronto Area marked the fifth annual National Day of Truth and Reconciliation Tuesday in a variety of ways Tuesday, including flag raising, sunrise and drumming ceremonies. The day commemorates the lives lost to Canada's government-funded, church-run residential school system and honours the survivors and communities affected by ongoing trauma. In a news release Tuesday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Minister of Indigenous Affairs and First Nations Economic Reconciliation Greg Rickford said government buildings across the province would be lit orange.
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'How in the world could this happen to children?' Former residential school in Ontario to open as museum | CBC News

The former Mohawk Institute the longest-running residential school in Canada is now named the Woodland Cultural Centre and is preparing to open to the public for the first time as a museum on Sept. 30, National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. WATCH | Canada's longest-running residential school to reopen as a museum: Canada's longest running residential school, known as the Mohawk Institute, has reopened as a museum at Ontario's Woodland Cultural Centre
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How you can mark National Day of Truth and Reconciliation in the GTA | CBC News

The day commemorates the children who died while being forced to attend church-run and government-funded residential schools, as well as survivors and communities affected by ongoing trauma. Tuesday is also known as Orange Shirt Day, a tradition that began in 2013 to honour residential school survivor Phyllis Webstad, who had her orange shirt taken away on her first day at St. Joseph Mission Residential School.
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3 days ago
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Canada's Resounding Failure to Fully Embrace the Truth of Residential Schools | The Walrus

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Canada's Resounding Failure to Fully Embrace the Truth of Residential Schools | The Walrus

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There Are More Indigenous Children in Care Now than at the Height of Residential Schools | The Walrus

More than 150,000 children taken. That's really all you need to know about residential schools. In Canada, more than 150,000 Indigenous children attended these institutions between the 1870s and the late 1990s. There, they died, suffered, and ached-for their families, communities, languages, and ways of life. Today, there are more Indigenous children in care than there were at the height of the residential school system.
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3 days ago

How Media Can Help Bring Indigenous Traditions Back to Life | The Walrus

I was twenty-two, a recent graduate of a university named after Christopher Columbus. The Huffington Post had hired me to be their "Native Issues Fellow," essentially a glorified intern working mostly from behind a desk in New York City. My first headline, written in that tabloid-y left-of-centre HuffPost style: "Canada Just Confronted Its 'Cultural Genocide' of Native People. Why Can't the U.S. Do the Same?"
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3 weeks ago

People say my music helps them heal': Canada's First Nations musicians revitalise the powwow

Indigenous communities reclaim and revitalize cultural dances, music, and traditions while confronting historical trauma and loss caused by residential schools and assimilation policies.
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3 months ago

Sir John A. Macdonald statue at Queen's Park visible to public for 1st time in 5 years | CBC News

Children's shoes that were placed at the base of the statue after the discovery of possible unmarked graves on the grounds of former residential schools were "carefully and respectfully" removed and stored prior to the removal of the hoarding, the statement says.
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4 months ago

Sir John A. Macdonald statue at Queen's Park to be uncovered after 5 years | CBC News

The statue of Sir John A. Macdonald on the grounds of the Ontario legislature will soon have the hoarding removed, reflecting ongoing dialogues about his legacy.
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5 months ago

Pope Francis dead at 88 after 12 years as Catholic Church head | CBC News

Pope Francis, known for his empathetic leadership and historic apologies, has passed away at the age of 88.
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