Perspectives

“What unfolded hearkens to such words as extermination and genocide. Canada, this is your legacy.”. Elizabeth A. Fenn, Pulitzer Prize historian from the Forward to “Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation and the Loss of Indigenous Life. James Daschuk. March 2, 2019 Three months laters on June 3, 2019 the Missing and Murdered Indigenous

Calls to Action Status: Oct. 16, 2022 Not Started Stalled In Progress Complete 15 21 47 11 16% 22.3% 50.0% 11.7% Status Legacy Calls to Action(1-42) + 50-52, 62-65 Reconciliation Calls to Action Not Started 2, 6, 9, 26, 34, 42, 51, 52, 64 45, 46, 47, 55, 56, 89 Stalled 8, 10, 12, 14,

Reconciliation has hit a roadblock. On Sept. 30, 2022, the second annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, 38% of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 94 Calls to Action (C2A) are either NOT STARTED (15) or STALLED (21). That’s a slight decrease from Sept. 15, 2019 when that number was 43%. And this result comes

Indigenous Watchdog (IW) aggregates a vast repository of curated data from multiple sources across Canada to track and report on what is happening with reconciliation – good and bad! What is working and what is not? The question for a lot of users is where to start and how to navigate the information to find

Call to Action Status as of August 20, 2022 Not Started Stalled In Progress Complete 12 21 50 11 12.8% 22.3% 53.2% 11.7% Status Legacy Calls to Action(1-42) + 50-52, 62-65 Reconciliation Calls to Action(43-94) Not Started 6, 9, 26, 34, 42, 51, 52, 64 45, 46, 47, 89 Stalled 8, 10, 12, 14, 17,

If an apology is focused on the needs of the perpetrator for forgiveness and not on what the victims need for closure and healing, is it really an apology? One could argue that the pope, in focusing his apology on seeking forgiveness for the horrific “sins” of his “children” (priests, nuns and other christians), is

On April 1, 2022, Pope Francis partially apologized to the delegation of First Nations, Métis and Inuit residential school survivors who travelled to Rome for meetings at the Vatican. The apology, however, simply said, “For the deplorable conduct of these members of the Catholic Church, I ask for God’s forgiveness and I want to say

Read the one line descriptions below and feel the pulse of reconciliation – getting a little stronger now that the federal government has passed Bill C – 29 “The National Centre for Reconciliation Act“. Seven years after the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Final Report in June 2015, the federal government has finally tabled

In the space of one week on the anniversary of the discovery of 200 unmarked graves at the Kamloops Indian Residential School on May 27, 2021 the National Post published two articles: May 26, 2022: “The year of the graves: How the world’s media got it wrong on residential school graves“. Terry Glavin May 30,