Indigenous leaders and residential school survivors reflect on compassionate, complex legacy of Pope Francis
It's been nearly three years since Pope Francis travelled to Canada to apologize for the Catholic Church's role in residential schools. But for some Indigenous survivors, ...
#apology #residentialschool #Canada #Indigenous #News #Edmonton
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/indigenous-leaders-and-residential-school-survivors-reflect-on-complex-legacy-of-pope-francis-1.7515253?cmp=rss
Indigenous leaders and residential school survivors reflect on compassionate, complex legacy of Pope Francis
It's been nearly three years since Pope Francis travelled to Canada to apologize for the Catholic Church's role in residential schools. But for some Indigenous survivors, ...
#apology #residentialschool #Canada #Indigenous #News #Edmonton
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/indigenous-leaders-and-residential-school-survivors-reflect-on-complex-legacy-of-pope-francis-1.7515253?cmp=rss
This #residentialSchool #denialist is backed by "real estate speculators, corporate landlords, and oil tycoons. He’s going to be looking after their interests, not yours." This is a common profile of many in #Poilievre's party. https://www.bchistoryboy.ca/p/whos-funding-aaron-gunn
"#Poilievre’s decision to support a candidate engaging in #residentialschool denialism is disappointing but not surprising. There is a clear pattern of denialism and anti-#Indigenous #racism within the Conservative Party of Canada." https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/pierre-poilievre-and-the-conservatives-have-a-residential-school-denialism-problem
Dallas Brodie booted from BC Conservatives over residential school comments
BC Conservative Leader John Rustad said MLA Dallas Brodie was expelled for her "decision to publicly mock and belittle testimony from former residential school students."
#politics #school #residentialschool #BCpolitics
https://globalnews.ca/news/11071997/dallas-brodie-booted-from-bc-conservatives-over-residential-school-comments/
Fucking vile. She mocked residential school survivors for their testimony about being sexually abused as children. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dallas-brodie-removed-from-b-c-conservative-caucus-1.7478162 #ResidentialSchool #BCPolitics #HateSpeech #Canada
Dallas Brodie booted from BC Conservatives over residential school comments
BC Conservative Leader John Rustad said MLA Dallas Brodie was expelled for her "decision to publicly mock and belittle testimony from former residential school students."
#politics #school #residentialschool #BCpolitics
https://globalnews.ca/news/11071997/dallas-brodie-booted-from-bc-conservatives-over-residential-school-comments/
Williams Lake First Nation calls on feds to support revitalization of former residential school site
The call comes as Sellars heads to Los Angeles for the Academy Awards, where the film Sugarcane, which explores the history of St. Joseph's Mission, is nominated for Best Doc...
#residentialschool #government #film #WilliamsLake #LosAngeles #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/williams-lake-first-nation-st-joseph-s-mission-sugarcane-federal-money-revitalization-1.7471484?cmp=rss
Williams Lake First Nation calls on feds to support revitalization of former residential school site
The call comes as Sellars heads to Los Angeles for the Academy Awards, where the film Sugarcane, which explores the history of St. Joseph's Mission, is nominated for Best Doc...
#residentialschool #government #film #WilliamsLake #LosAngeles #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/williams-lake-first-nation-st-joseph-s-mission-sugarcane-federal-money-revitalization-1.7471484?cmp=rss
Ottawa ends funding for national advisory committee on unmarked residential school graves
The National Advisory Committee on Residential Schools Missing Children and Unmarked Burials supports Indigenous communities looking to identify, locate and commemorate children who died at residential sch...
#funding #residentialschool #Indigenous #Ottawa #News #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/funding-ends-for-national-advisory-committee-on-residential-school-missing-children-1.7460534?cmp=rss
Ottawa ends funding for national advisory committee on unmarked residential school graves
The National Advisory Committee on Residential Schools Missing Children and Unmarked Burials supports Indigenous communities looking to identify, locate and commemorate children who died at residential sch...
#funding #residentialschool #Indigenous #Ottawa #News #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/funding-ends-for-national-advisory-committee-on-residential-school-missing-children-1.7460534?cmp=rss
The nationalistic fervor I'm seeing in Canada creeps me out. The Canadian flag is not the great balm for the soul so many settlers think it is. It is a symbol of colonial oppression for Indigenous folks. It wasn't so long ago that those hidden graves at residential schools were discovered. More continue to be found at the sites of former residential schools, and genocide deniers have been taking over the narrative.
Indigenous communities still remain without drinking water despite political promises even while Nestle plunders nearby water sources.
A large percentage of calls to action for Truth and Reconciliation remain unmet.
I see the jingoistic flag-waving disturbing and alienating. I've already had people laughing at my alienation.
Do not alienate Indigenous people. As Jeff Doctor says over on BlueSky, "Remember who taught you about maple trees, about the food from these lands, the ways to keep safe and warm. Some of your ancestors have already resisted Americans alongside ours, learn from the true histories, not the nationalist versions."
https://bsky.app/profile/jeff.doctor/post/3liaarncgwf2x
#Canada #CanadianFlag #MapleLeafFlag #215Children #ResidentialSchool #Jingoism #TruthAndReconciliation #SystemicRacism #Genocide
#ResidentialSchool denialists don’t want you to watch Sugarcane - a new documentary about the St. Joseph’s Residential School that’s getting #Oscar buzz and is now streaming on Disney+ and Hulu.
That’s a good reason to check it out and learn about the legacy of the #Indian Residential School (IRS) system.
They fell in love decades after attending the same residential school. Now they're preserving the history
A couple who reconnected, fell in love and got married decades after being at the same residential school are now sharing their stories to make sure the truth of what happened is never lost.
#love #history #school #residentialschool #News #Canada #Saskatchewan
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/residential-school-couple-1.7335304?cmp=rss
Another churchly #ChildKiller retires behind smoke and mirrors: The Case of #JustinWelby.
Raping a child and protecting those who do is as Christian as crucifixion. So no doubt the world is emitting a big yawn today as Justin Welby resigns as #Archbishop of Canterbury after being caught covering for his sadistic child-torturing friend John Smyth.
After all, #Anglican and #Catholic clergy are required by their standing policy of #CrimenSollicitationas to do precisely what Welby did and protect #ChildRapists in their church.
In its typical facile, dissimulating manner, the media has treated Welby’s protection of the brutal child-rapist John Smyth as a one-time, episodic event. In fact, Archbishop Welby is himself a notorious repeat offender who has blood on his hands. The malfeasance of this former #oil company executive turned Anglican #cleric goes way back.
During the first accredited excavation of children’s #MassGraves at the murderous Anglican #Mohawk #ResidentialSchool in #Brantford, #Ontario during 2011, Archbishop Welby ordered all the school records and gravesites destroyed.
During the summer of 2014, Justin Welby was named as a co-conspirator in #ChildTrafficking and killing by a #Brussels based #CitizensTribunal and found guilty of #CrimesAgainstHumanity. Part of the evidence presented to the Tribunal concerned Welby’s participation in a #CatholicAnglican child sacrificial #cult known as the #NinthCircle that operated extensively in the #Canadian ‘Indian #ResidentialSchools and implicates British, Dutch, and Belgian ‘royalty’.
The complicity doesn’t end there. It involves the world’s second biggest #mining company and a close associate and funder of Donald #Trump: Rio Tinto, whose biggest investors include the British royal family. Justin Welby’s ties to #RioTinto Mining and to more murder cropped up in September of 2022, when Tinto and its Canadian subsidiary, #StarDiamondMining, dealt with some “troublesome Indians” on the James Smith #Cree reservation in eastern #Saskatchewan.
After refusing to allow Rio Tinto to begin diamond mining on their land, ten members of the James Smith tribe were #murdered in one night. The alleged killer was a drug addict and drifter who conveniently died in #RCMP custody the next day. Six of the ten murdered people were relatives of Rio Tinto’s biggest opponent among the James Smith Cree natives, Chief Wally Burns.
Mistodon: to you, it's just an #OrangeShirt that AdeptApril has illustrated in #ANSIart. But if you're in Canada, the shirt represents the imposition of the #ResidentialSchool system on Indigenous children for around a century and a half, removing them from the care of their parents and extinguishing their language and culture in a slow-moving campaign of genocide. We wear the symbolic garment today in a gesture in support of #TruthAndReconcilation.
This is what Orange Shirt Day is about. And today, the residential school system lives on in a different form. Indigenous children are still stolen from their families and raised in group homes where they are abused and then, when they age out of the system, many end up on the streets with no supports. The 60s scoop did not end. The racism is systemic. https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/kent-monkman/key-works/the-scream/ #KentMonkman #TheScream #TruthAndReconciliation #ResidentialSchool #IndigenousMastodon #OrangeShirtDay
Officials with the federal government told organizations and community leaders responsible for searches for #MissingChildren and #UnmarkedBurials at #ResidentialSchool sites Thursday their funding is being capped at $500,000 per year.
That cap is substantially less than previous operating budgets and much less than what organizations estimate is required to continue the work.
Special Interlocutor Kimberly Murray said this is the third time the funding structure for searches has changed and that her interim report released last summer pointed at a lack of sufficient long-term funding. She said this recommendation will be echoed in her final report and that it was "absolutely ridiculous" for the government to say they were waiting on these recommendations when they are clearly not applying them.
"But it's also part of, like, settler amnesty, right, and a culture of #impunity … we stop funding communities to do the work, then less truths are going to come out, and, you know, there'll be less calls for #justice and #accountability, and they won't have to comply with their international legal obligations," she said.
