TRC reaches out to inmates about residential school experiences
For the last four years Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has been gathering statements from former residential school students about their experiences.
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TRC hears painful Inuit residential school stories
Meanwhile, the truth and reconciliation commission heard from the urban Inuit community Thursday in Ottawa.
Justice Murray Sinclair meets with Education Ministers in Halifax
APTN National News The head of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission had a message for…
Holocaust survivor shares story of healing with former Indian residential school students
A special guest speaker made a moving presentation on the resiliency of the human spirit at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s national event in Saskatoon.
TRC event in Saskatoon brings healing along with pain
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission recently held a national event in Saskatoon.
Identities, bodies of children who died in residential schools may be lost forever
The identities and bodies of many First Nations children who died at Indian residential schools may be lost forever, says the Ontario Coroner’s Office which has been working with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to sift through one of the darkest periods in Canadian history to find the dead.
Metis National Council calls for reconciliation for Metis residential school students
APTN National News The Metis National Council is meeting in Saskatoon to discuss issues surrounding…
TRC Commissioner Sinclair takes strong exception to APTN story
An item by APTN National News reporter Rob Smith which aired last Friday raised a question which is a source of much debate: Were residential schools genocide?
TRC lands in Saskatchewan to hear residential school stories
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is making its first major stop in Saskatchewan this week.