Saganash calls on Duncan to apologize over residential schools comment
The Conservative government announced Thursday morning it was commissioning a stained glass tribute to the survivors of Indian residential schools.
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TRC makes final stop before major Halifax event
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission rolled in Eskasoni First Nation in Nova Scotia Friday.
‘When I came in the house, there were Mounties there’
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is in Indian Brook this week.
Indian residential school system an act of genocide: prof
The residential school experience left thousands of Aboriginal people with emotional and physical scars.
TRC now heads East to hear survivor stories
The story of Aboriginal children being forced into residential schools is now being told in Atlantic Canada.
‘I used to look at the stars and think, my mom and dad are seeing the same stars’
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission tasked with gathering testimony from survivors of residential schools has completed their second national event.
Healing through laughter
Healing through laughter is one way to life the heaviness of the Truth and Reconciliation hearings.
‘All that heavy burden, pretty well gone’
Up to 1,000 residential school survivors along with government and church leaders gathered in Inuvik last week for the second national gathering of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Search continues for “the missing” from Indian residential school
It’s estimated that 150,000 students passed through Canada’s Indian Residential School system. One-third of them, never made it home.