Residential schools

PETERS – Landfill search for Indigenous women’s remains worth honest effort

December 10, 2022 // 0 Comments

THE FRAUGHT RELATIONSHIP between Canada’s Indigenous people and this nation’s police reached another new low this week. Winnipeg’s police service revealed that the [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Canadians are getting the message about T&R

October 1, 2022 // 2 Comments

ACTION, NOT JUST WORDS. We hear that a lot these days in any discussion of reconciliation, and it undoubtedly was spoken many times yesterday, for it was National Truth and [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Pope’s apology was an imperfect but momentous gesture

July 26, 2022 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. CRITICISM OF THE POPE’S APOLOGY began as soon as it was delivered yesterday. It “fell short,” as many said. I’m trying to understand [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: The pope’s apology and the question of unmarked graves

July 23, 2022 // 0 Comments

POPE FRANCIS FACES A TALL ORDER after he arrives in Canada tomorrow for what he describes as a “penitential pilgrimage.” Job One during his week-long visit is a second [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Return of $500,000 donation raises an important question

July 5, 2022 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE ‘SINS OF THE FATHER’ is a saying derived from Biblical references commonly understood as meaning the sins of one generation are [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The new indigenous stereotypes

June 9, 2022 // 1 Comment

FINDING UNMARKED BURIAL SITES outside the former Kamloops residential school more than a year ago ignited global awareness of Indigenous concerns, but it has not left the [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – With Pope’s apology in hand, ‘now the hard work begins’

April 2, 2022 // 3 Comments

INDIGENOUS DELEGATES to the Vatican must be feeling a great sense of satisfaction, happiness, even relief as they wing their way home. Pope Francis has apologized. [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Stick to waving the Maple Leaf, leave the colour orange alone

February 14, 2022 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE CANADIAN FLAG belongs to all Canadians. I get it. So if truckers want to wave the Maple Leaf at their convoy protest — and thousands [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Painful decisions coming on burial grounds search

January 26, 2022 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WILLIAMS LAKE FIRST NATION revealed the results yesterday of its investigation into possible burial sites on the grounds of St. Joseph’s [Continue]

BEPPLE – It’s time for the settler community to shine light on itself

January 26, 2022 // 4 Comments

YESTERDAY, JANUARY 25, 2022, the Williams Lake First Nation (WLFN) released its preliminary results of their first phase of investigations into St. Joseph’s Mission [Continue]

LETTER – A family connection with the historic cemetery at Marieval

January 10, 2022 // 1 Comment

Re: Editorial, ‘Let’s hope 2022 will tell us more about the missing children.’ An interesting tie I have to Marieval. My great grandfather, William [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Let’s hope 2022 will tell us more about the missing children

December 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT’S NOT AT ALL A SURPRISE that residential school gravesite discoveries are the biggest news story of 2021. Editors of Canadian Press [Continue]

PETERS – Instead of honouring Indigenous children, the PM flew by

October 2, 2021 // 3 Comments

MAYBE YOU DIDN’T AND DON’T want Justin Trudeau to come to Kamloops. That’s fair. There are plenty of reasons residents would want him to stay away. But the Tk’emlups [Continue]

EDITORIAL – National reconciliation day is more than just another stat

September 29, 2021 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. TOMORROW’S A HOLIDAY and some people aren’t at all sure what it’s about. The federal government has declared Sept. 30 as a new stat [Continue]