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Two-day Indigenous Legacy Gathering to be held in Nathan Phillips Square to honour residential school survivors

Tipis designed by Indigenous artists and youth will again transform Nathan Phillips Square. Both days will begin with a sunrise ceremony, followed by featured speakers and presentations. Evening programming will feature special entertainment each night. All programming and workshops are family-friendly, safe, and free to the public.

The gathering will also promote the Spirit Garden as a permanent structure responding to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Call to Action 82. The Spirit Garden will honour residential school survivors and all the children who were lost to their families and communities. The spirit garden is set to be completed in 2023. More information is available online.

by Sarcasticat•November 5, 2021November 4, 2021•0•Aboriginal Issues, Indigenous, Toronto

Canadian flags on federal buildings to be raised next week: government source

Trudeau had seemed to indicate Indigenous communities would have to give consent for the government to raise the flags. But the source said that is not the case.

by Sarcasticat•November 5, 2021November 4, 2021•0•Aboriginal Issues, Canada, Canada's incompetent Liberal Government, Indigenous, Remembrance Day

Queen’s University launches process to verify claims to Indigenous identity

Queen’s University is launching consultations on how to assess Indigenous identity claims in hiring, a first step in establishing what could be a national model for universities struggling to deal with allegations of identity fraud among their faculty.

by Sarcasticat•November 4, 2021November 4, 2021•0•"Identity Politics", Canada, Fraud, Indigenous

PM says Indigenous talks may offer ‘solution’ so Canada can honour war dead

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is confident a “solution” will be reached to allow Canada to honour its war dead on Remembrance Day by lowering the flag to half-mast.

Trudeau gave his strongest indication yet on Tuesday that the national flag could be raised and then lowered again at federal buildings on Remembrance Day.

by Sarcasticat•November 3, 2021November 2, 2021•0•"Peak Woke", Aboriginal Issues, Canada, Canada's incompetent Liberal Government, Indigenous, Remembrance Day

‘Canada must own up’: Manitoba First Nations leaders call for national inquiry into Sixties Scoop

Beginning in the mid-1950s and lasting until the early 1990s, a series of policies enacted by provincial child welfare authorities saw thousands of First Nations and Inuit children taken from their homes and families, placed in foster homes, and eventually adopted out to white families from across Canada and the United States.

by Sarcasticat•November 2, 2021November 1, 2021•0•Aboriginal Issues, history, History - distortion of, Indigenous

Compensation for Indigenous children removed from homes not justice, says AFN chief

Assembly of First Nations Chief RoseAnne Archibald says any federal compensation paid to Indigenous children removed from their homes would be a recognition of the harms that were caused, but does not make amends for the damage done in the process.

by Sarcasticat•October 31, 2021October 31, 2021•0•Aboriginal Issues, Canada, history, History - distortion of, Indigenous

Williams Lake mayor criticized for sharing ‘other side of the story’ on residential schools

Williams Lake mayor Walt Cobb is being criticized for sharing a post about the ‘other side of residential schools,’ on his personal Facebook page.

The post, which the mayor shared late Friday morning Oct. 27, includes the words, ‘most of the older generation that did suffer are long dead and gone or have forgiven’ and ‘it seems to me that many of the new generations just want to be victims and feel the money would solve their pain.’

by Sarcasticat•October 30, 2021October 30, 2021•0•Aboriginal Issues, Canada, Indigenous

Pope Francis Will Travel to Canada to Aid ‘Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples’

“The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has invited the Holy Father to make an apostolic journey to Canada, also in the context of the long-standing pastoral process of reconciliation with indigenous peoples,” states a message from Matteo Bruni, director of the Vatican press office.

by Sarcasticat•October 28, 2021October 27, 2021•0•Aboriginal Issues, Canada, history, History - distortion of, Indigenous, Pope Francis

Trudeau says Catholic officials must ‘step up’ morally, financially for residential school survivors

Catholic bishops say they’re ‘fully committed’ to healing and reconciliation.

by Sarcasticat•October 20, 2021October 19, 2021•0•Aboriginal Issues, Catholic Church, history, History - distortion of, Indigenous, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

N.B. government tells staff to stop making Indigenous land acknowledgments

Justice Minister Hugh Flemming noted that N.B. First Nations are claiming title to ‘over 60% of the province’.

by Sarcasticat•October 18, 2021October 17, 2021•0•Aboriginal Issues, Canada, Indigenous

Quebec premier says last week’s debates on racism lacked compassion for First Nations

Legault said today on Facebook that last week’s debates on racism did not strike the right tone, because they occurred on the first anniversary of the death of Joyce Echaquan and later, on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

by Sarcasticat•October 5, 2021October 4, 2021•0•Aboriginal Issues, Canada, Indigenous, Quebec, race/ethnicity, Racism

Indigenous leaders, politicians condemn Trudeau over Tofino vacation

Union of BC Indian Chiefs Grand Chief Stewart Phillip called Trudeau’s move a “slap in the face” of residential school survivors.

by Sarcasticat•October 2, 2021October 1, 2021•0•Aboriginal Issues, Canada, Canada's incompetent Liberal Government, history, History - distortion of, idiot politician, Indigenous, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

Zing!

Can someone explain to me how federal employees having another day off will contribute to solving the problems that Indigenous Canadians face?

— Maxime Bernier (@MaximeBernier) September 30, 2021

by Sarcasticat•October 1, 2021September 30, 2021•0•Aboriginal Issues, Canada, Indigenous, PPC, PPC - People's Party of Canada

Ontario makes Indigenous curriculum mandatory for Grades 1 to 3

A day before Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the Ontario government announced changes to the school curriculum, committing to strengthening Indigenous learning in Grades 1 to 3 in the next two years, including an introduction to the residential school system.

h/t Neocon Servative

by Sarcasticat•September 30, 2021September 29, 2021•0•Aboriginal Issues, Education, history, History - distortion of, Indigenous, Ontario

APTN, CBC to air National Day for Truth and Reconciliation programming

A prime-time special in honour of residential school survivors will air on APTN and CBC/Radio-Canada on the inaugural National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30.

by Sarcasticat•September 16, 2021September 15, 2021•0•Aboriginal Issues, history, History - distortion of, Indigenous