Residential Schools Archives

Reconciliation and healing require forward perspectives

We must embrace who we are as Canadians, the values that set us apart from the rest of the world

We must embrace who we are as Canadians, the values that set us apart from the rest of the world

Focusing on the residential school system alone fails to recognize and correct 200 years of bad policy and practice

Focusing on the residential school system alone fails to recognize and correct 200 years of bad policy and practice

Beware the arrogance of the new age. Attempting to cleanse history is a fool’s or, worse, a tyrant’s errand

Beware the arrogance of the new age. Attempting to cleanse history is a fool’s or, worse, a tyrant’s errand

Canadian governments continue to allow the operation of a justice system constructed on a foundation of systemic racism

Canadian governments continue to allow the operation of a justice system constructed on a foundation of systemic racism

Indigenous teenagers around the world face problems they think are insurmountable. But there are solutions

Indigenous teenagers around the world face problems they think are insurmountable. But there are solutions

We won't find reconciliation until we're willing to examine the truth in all its nuances and subtleties

We won’t find reconciliation until we’re willing to examine the truth in all its nuances and subtleties

MPs telling bishops what to do is a monstrous misunderstanding of the relationship between political power and civil society

MPs telling bishops what to do is a monstrous misunderstanding of the relationship between political power and civil society

It’s instructive that no credible alternative to the residential schools has ever been put forward

It’s instructive that no credible alternative to the residential schools has ever been put forward

We gain strength when we decide that we won’t allow the crimes of others to hold us back. We gain true freedom when we forgive our oppressors

We gain strength when we decide that we won’t allow the crimes of others to hold us back. We gain true freedom when we forgive our oppressors

One small change to the words of O Canada will remind us of our historic debt and help facilitate broader knowledge of Indigenous issues

One small change to the words of O Canada will remind us of our historic debt and help facilitate broader knowledge of Indigenous issues