Image: a circle that comprises four pairs of hands with fingers outstretched. At the centre of the circle, in capital letters, the words “EVERY CHILD MATTERS”. THE STORY OF ORANGE SHIRT DAY (from The Orange Shirt Society website) Orange Shirt Day is a legacy of the St. Joseph Mission (SJM) Residential School (1891-1981) Commemoration Project […]| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
The Inquiry Regarding the Treatment, Experiences, and Outcomes of Innu in the Child Protection System will wrap in 2025 amid efforts by Innu in Labrador to reclaim jurisdiction from province over child ‘welfare’| News Archives – The Independent
Historian Zara Surratt explores how Sugarcane weaves ceremony, oral history, and archival truth-telling into a searing documentary about intergenerational trauma and care.| Reading Religion
Version française By William Benoit and Alyssa White This article contains historical language and content that may be considered offensive, such as language used to refer to racial, ethnic and cul…| Library and Archives Canada Blog
This article explores Indigenous education in Canada, its connection to health and well-being, the legacy of residential schools, and current federal support for First Nations students.| HillNotes
Version française By Marc St. Dennis This article contains historical language and content that may be considered offensive, such as language used to refer to racial, ethnic and cultural groups. Please see our historical language advisory for more information. The … Continue reading →| Library and Archives Canada Blog
The Alberta government is going full MAGA with its Compassionate Intervention Act, which will strip people who use drugs of due process and force them into months-long medical incarceration.| Drug Data Decoded
The Oscar-nominated documentary Sugarcane, focused on a Kamloops residential school, withholds key facts and encourages unfounded conclusions.| C2C Journal
In our largely “post-truth” society, the validity of a given statement is increasingly assessed based on who is making it. There are even those who believe that only some should be allowed to say certain things – while others should be scorned or even imprisoned for uttering the same words. This increasingly describes the discursive landscape concerning Canada’s Indian Residential Schools and whether Indigenous children disappeared from and/or were murdered there. Drawing on his lived...| C2C Journal
I’ve been writing new blog posts on LANDBACK Friends (LANDBackFriends.com) because those are the issues I’m learning and writing about now. Here is a list of July’s posts there: J…| Quakers, social justice and revolution
Trauma is passed from generation to generation. The recent documentation of the remains of 215 Native children at a boarding school in Canada has re-opened deep wounds in Native communities. Some o…| Quakers, social justice and revolution
Yesterday I wrote how the verification of the remains of 215 children at the Kamloops Indian Residential School affected my Native friends and me. That discovery prompted Secretary of the Inte…| Quakers, social justice and revolution
