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.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
‘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.
Portrait collection brings back residential school memories
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s national event in Inuvik is a reunion for many of the former students of residential schools.
Holocaust survivor forms bonds with Indian residential school survivors
Forgiving traumatic events in the past has allowed one man to move on in life.
Inuvik TRC event triggers memories on path to healing
The haunting drumming of the Dene opened the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s national event in Inuvik, NWT, Tuesday.
‘We’re not defeated people, we’re hurt, we’re in pain, but we’re strong’
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has wrapped up its Northern hearings.
Stories of abuse, shame amid tears during Yukon TRC hearing
For 12 hours, survivors from the Lower Post Residential School told their stories at the Truth and Reconciliation hearings held last week in Watson Lake, Yukon.
