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Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) | Commission de vérité et réconciliation (CVR)

Collected by: Library and Archives Canada | Bibliothèque et Archives Canada

Archived since: Nov, 2015

Description:

Library and Archives Canada's (LAC) Truth and Reconciliation Commission Web Archive provides access to archival copies of the websites of organizations connected with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC), either as active partners at national events or through initiatives to support commemoration. The collection was curated in collaboration with the University of Winnipeg Library, the University of Manitoba Libraries, and the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR). For more information, please see LAC’s TRC Web Archive website: http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/aboriginal-heritage/Pages/truth-reconciliation-commission-web-archive.aspx. / Les archives Web de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada (BAC) concernant la Commission de vérité et réconciliation (CVR) procurent un accès aux copies d'archives de sites Web appartenant à des organisations ayant un lien avec la CVR, soit en qualité de partenaires à part entière dans des événements nationaux ou par l'intermédiaire d'initiatives ayant pour but de soutenir la commémoration. La collection a été préparée et organisée en collaboration avec la bibliothèque de l'Université de Winnipeg, les bibliothèques de l'Université du Manitoba et le Centre national pour la vérité et la réconciliation (CNVR). Pour plus d’informations, veuillez consulter le site Web de BAC pour les archives Web concernant la CVR: http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/fra/decouvrez/patrimoine-autochtone/Pages/archives-web-commission-verite-reconciliation.aspx.

Subject:   Society & Culture

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Title: Clifton & Rubenstein: Debunking the half-truths and exaggerations in the Truth and Reconciliation report

URL: http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/clifton-rubenstein-debunking-the-half-truths-and-exaggerations-in-the-truth-and-reconciliation-report

Description: Commentary challenging the findings of the Final TRC report.

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Title: Conrad Black: Canada’s treatment of aboriginals was shameful, but it was not genocide

URL: http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/conrad-black-canadas-treatment-of-aboriginals-was-shameful-but-it-was-not-genocide

Description: Commentary arguing that the residential school system, though shameful, does not fit the definition of genocide.

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Title: Rubenstein & Clifton: Truth and Reconciliation report tells a ‘skewed and partial story’ of residential schools

URL: http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/rubenstein-clifton-truth-and-reconciliation-report-tells-a-skewed-and-partial-story-of-residential-schools

Description: Commentary expressing skepticism at the findings of the TRC report. One of the authors, Professor Clifton, identifies himself as a supervisor at a residential school in the 1960s.

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Title: Wynne apologizes on behalf of Ontario for ‘brutalities’ suffered in residential schools

URL: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/wynne-apologizes-on-behalf-of-province-for-brutalities-suffered-in-residential-schools/

Description: Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne offered a formal apology on behalf of the Ontario government for the brutalities of the Indian Residential School System.

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Title: Five of the best recommendations from the Truth & Reconciliation Commission, and five that will be problematic

URL: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/five-of-the-best-and-perhaps-worst/

Description: Published 3 June 2015. Columnist Jen Gerson offers an assessment of 10 of the TRC's 94 recommendations.

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Title: New Heritage Minutes tackle ‘some hard truths about residential schools and treaties’ as part of reconciliation

URL: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/new-heritage-minutes-tackle-some-hard-truths-about-residential-schools-and-treaties-as-part-of-reconciliation/

Description: Published 21 June 2016. Article addresses the two new Canadian Heritage Minutes videos on the history of residential schools and treaties.

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Title: Residential schools to blame for problems plaguing aboriginals: Truth and Reconciliation Commission

URL: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/residential-schools-to-blame-for-problems-plaguing-aboriginals-truth-and-reconciliation-commission/

Description: An exhaustive new report has concluded that modern-day Canada is perpetuating the mistakes that led to the creation of the often-abusive aboriginal residential schools more than a century ago through policies that continue to harm Indigenous people.

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Title: Skeleton of aboriginal girl, buried 180 years ago on Alberta farm, becomes unlikely ‘bridge builder’

URL: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/skeleton-of-aboriginal-girl-buried-180-years-ago-on-alberta-farm-becomes-unlikely-bridge-builder/

Description: A ceremony was held in October 2015 to re-bury the bones of a young Aboriginal woman found on a farm near Viking, Alberta. The farmer contextualized the experience in terms of the findings of the TRC and the necessity of building bridges between cultures.

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Title: The chief who said no: One Northern village rejected residential schools and built their own instead

URL: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-chief-who-said-no-one-northern-village-rejected-residential-schools-and-built-their-own-instead/

Description: Rather than allow government officials to remove children of the Jean Marie River reserve in the Northwest Territories, chief Louis Norwegian spearheaded the building of a school on the reserve in the early 1950s, the first of its kind in Canada.

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Title: ‘Where I learned to fight and cheat and steal’: Six Nations wants to save longest-running residential school

URL: http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/where-i-learned-to-fight-and-cheat-and-steal-six-nations-wants-to-save-longest-running-residential-school/

Description: This article describes the former Mohawk Institute on Six Nations territory near Brantford and the community's fight to preserve Canada's longest-running residential school.

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