Allegations of mass graves outside of Canadian residential schools was one of the top news stories in the world in 2021. Ground-penetrating radar was said to have found evidence of the remains of as many as 215 children on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. But these soil anomalies have not been […]| Reformed Perspective
Majorities acknowledge that what happened at Indian Residential Schools was ‘cultural genocide’ August 14, 2025 – In the wake of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report in 2015, many Canadians have been grappling with the nation’s treatment of Indigenous Peoples. One of the key conversations has centred around Indian Residential schools (IRS), and the discovery of soil “anomalies” through ground-penetrating… The post Two-thirds want additional evidence before accepting th...| Angus Reid Institute
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
Reading Time: 6minutesDisponible en français. On 21 June, National Indigenous Peoples Day, communities across Canada hold events that celebrate Indigenous cultures and contributions. To highlight this special day, the following HillNote focuses on examples of Indigenous leadership in elementary and secondary education,... Read More › The post Celebrating Indigenous Leadership in Elementary and Secondary Education appeared first on HillNotes.| 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