Residential schools

EDITORIAL – Statues and burning churches – ‘we must walk together’

July 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. INDIGENOUS LEADERS on southern Vancouver Island are calling for unity and an end to violence and vandalism committed in the name of cultural [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Colonial schools maybe, colonial monuments not

June 24, 2021 // 1 Comment

SOME OF CANADA’s Indigenous people have decided to keep their residential schools despite the fact that they hold so many painful memories. One of those is the largest [Continue]

BEPPLE – Listening to First Nations voices on residential schools

June 3, 2021 // 4 Comments

I THOUGHT THIS WEEK, what would be best, would be to listen. Here are a few of the First Nations’ voices I have been listening to through this very difficult week, mostly [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]

IN THE HOUSE – Community mourns with survivors of residential schools

May 29, 2021 // 0 Comments

Comments by Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod in Parliament on Friday, May 28, 2021: Madam Speaker, yesterday, Kúkpi7 Rosanne Casimir of the Tk’emlúps [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]

CHARBONNEAU – Good memorials, bad memorials of residential schools

September 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

FIRST NATIONS SHOW THE WAY to reconciliation. Protestors with other agendas should pay heed. In a transformative move, Indigenous Canadians have designated the residential [Continue]

EDITORIAL – New stat for Day of Reconciliation could be a good thing

August 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. A NEW NATIONAL HOLIDAY around the issue of reconciliation is a good idea if it’s done right. If it’s just going to be about the sad [Continue]

IN THE HOUSE – ‘Residential school was clearly the source of so much pain’

April 27, 2018 // 0 Comments

Comments by Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod during a debate in Parliament on Thursday, April 26, 2018 on whether to ask Pope Francis to apologize for the role of [Continue]