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STATEMENT – ‘Growing into a deepening awareness of the damage caused’

June 1, 2021 // 3 Comments

Statement from Missionary Oblates of Mary Imacculate “Regarding news from the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Nation (Kamloops Indian Band) of the discovery of the remains of [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – ‘We must work together to heal these painful wounds’

June 1, 2021 // 0 Comments

Comments by Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Peter Milobar in the BC Legislature on Monday, May 31, 2021: I RISE TODAY with a heart filled with grief. Last week, the member for [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – Catholic church must pay a heavy price for residential schools

May 31, 2021 // 7 Comments

By PIERCE GRAHAM A NUMBER OF RECENT Canadian newspapers have run headline stories confirming evidence of child abuse in the infamous residential school system. The worst of [Continue]

KNOX – Climate crisis didn’t end just because we’ve been fixated on plague

May 30, 2021 // 0 Comments

THREE YEARS AGO, a veteran forest campaigner was on the phone, bemoaning how little attention green-minded people were paying to the logging of old-growth on Vancouver [Continue]

PETERS – We call them survivors

May 29, 2021 // 0 Comments

WE CALL THEM SURVIVORS. Indigenous people who attended the schools in Canada’s residential school system are not called ‘former students’ or ‘attendees’ or [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Discovery of gravesites highlights the tragedy of Indian residential schools

May 29, 2021 // 0 Comments

THE GRIM DISCOVERY of the apparent gravesites of 215 children will undoubtedly change some thinking about what went on at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in the almost [Continue]