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Pope Francis apologizes for residential school abuses
Politics Insider for April 1: First Nations delegates make progress at the Vatican; Trudeau pushes for a G19; and a Wildrose battle
We failed to hear them when they lived. We are obliged to hear them now.
The residential school children who rest in unmarked graves are lost to their communities. But the shared knowledge of their fates has its own compelling power. That is why they top our 2022 Power List.
Ways, big and small, Canadians are marking the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Here’s how some are observing the day for reflecting on the tragic history of residential schools
I ran away from the Kamloops Residential School. This is where I hid.
On his 16th birthday, Ron Ignace’s residential school allowed him to go into town unsupervised. He didn’t go back, instead hiding in his aunt and uncle’s house. ‘That was the best damn decision I ever made in my life.’
Finding David Lightning: The decades-long quest to locate an unmarked grave
In 1987, a Cree Elder went looking for his brother’s final resting place. His quest is now a beacon in the search for residential school graves.
The search for graves—and truth—at a Nova Scotia residential school
For decades, former students of the Shubenacadie Residential School shared accounts of deaths and at least one burial at the facility
This entire country is haunted
Alicia Elliott: As we’re seeing more and more every day, this entire country is a real-life Indian burial ground—one that criminals parading as teachers, religious leaders and politicians took great care to cover up
A diploma with the wrong name
Waubgeshig Rice: We knew that succeeding at Ryerson University, named after a man who would have never wanted us there in the first place, would be the ultimate educational triumph
Screaming into silence
Cindy Blackstock: I believe those little spirits buried on the grounds of residential schools came to ensure the work gets done to end the injustices facing survivors