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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: Apologies are only the start – a reflection on the release of the report by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

URL: http://blog.legalaid.on.ca/2015/07/08/apologies-are-only-the-start-a-reflection-on-the-release-of-the-report-by-the-truth-and-reconciliation-commission/

Description: Article posted 8 July 2015 by Jonathan Rudin.

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Title: After Truth and Reconciliation Commission report we need action

URL: http://leaderpost.com/opinion/columnists/after-truth-and-reconciliation-commission-report-we-need-action/

Description: Joyce Green argues that reconciliation must be accompanied by restitution in the form of land-returns, Indigenous jurisdiction over resources and tax room, and other compensatory amends.

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Title: Aboriginal leader Phil Fontaine believes in reconciliation

URL: http://montrealgazette.com/news/aboriginal-leader-phil-fontaine-believes-in-reconciliation?utm_content=buffer3d99c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Description: Published 9 March 2016. Former Assembly of First Nations national chief Phil Fontaine speaks of how Canada and its aboriginal people can work toward reconciliation.

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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: 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: 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: Remembering Chanie Wenjack

URL: http://presbyterian.ca/2016/09/15/remembering-chanie-wenjack/

Description: The Presbyterian Church in Canada recognises that the story of Chanie Wenjack has an important place in its institutional history. The Presbyterian Church in Canada ran 11 residential schools between 1884 and 1969, including the Cecilia Jeffrey school in Kenora, Ontario.

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Title: Unlearning racism against Indigenous peoples in one generation

URL: http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/kairos-canada/2016/03/unlearning-racism-against-indigenous-peoples-one-generation?utm_content=buffer05fb8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Description: Published 21 March 2016, this article describes the use of the KAIROS blanket exercise to teach participants, especially children, about Indigenous cultures.

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Title: Reconciliation totem pole goes up at UBC

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/reconciliation-totem-pole-goes-up-at-ubc-1.4050078

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Title: New website aims to help non-aboriginal Canadians learn about indigenous issues

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/new-website-aims-to-help-non-aboriginal-canadians-learn-about-indigenous-issues-1.3217692

Description: A new website provides access to a network of information on First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples, and helps non-Indigenous Canadians learn about Indigenous issues.

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Title: Judge approves $50M residential school settlement

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/judge-approves-residential-school-settlement-1.3782105

Description: Article describing Justice Robert Stack's approval of the $50-million class-action settlement for survivors of Newfoundland and Labrador residential schools.

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Title: Students share emotional thoughts on reconciliation

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/saskatoon-students-share-emotional-thoughts-on-reconciliation-1.3374038

Description: Students at Mayfair Community School in Saskatoon wrote letters on residential schools and reconciliation.

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Title: Meet the journalist who inspired Gord Downie and Joseph Boyden to write about Chanie Wenjack

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/ian-adams-gord-downie-1.3813737

Description: In 1967, Ian Adams wrote "The Lonely Death of Charlie Wenjack" for Maclean's magazine. In the fall of 2016, two Canadian cultural icons are crediting it as the source of inspiration for new works that tell the story of Wenjack's death after running away from residential school.

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Title: Gord Downie's Secret Path brings hope to Chanie Wenjack's family, 50 years after boy's death

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/wenjack-family-response-secrect-path-1.3808589

Description: Chanie Wenjack is the subject of Gord Downie's new multimedia project, Secret Path, which includes a solo album, a graphic novel and an animated film. Wenjack's sister Pearl Wenjack says the change she has been seeking for 50 years is finally happening.

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Title: Residential Schools: Promises Of Reconciliation Saved In Bentwood Box

URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/05/30/residential-schools-prom_n_7474608.html

Description: The bentwood box present at each national TRC event represents the commitment to achieving reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples.

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Title: Residential Schools Archive Will Try To Balance Survivor Concerns With Education

URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/11/01/residential-schools-archive-trying-to-balance-survivor-privacy-public-education_n_8445132.html

Description: The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba has a central role in preserving the millions of records collected by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and educating Canadians about residential schools.

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Title: Why Chanie Wenjack’s story might finally get action

URL: http://www.macleans.ca/culture/books/why-chanie-wenjacks-story-might-finally-get-action/

Description: Published 12 September 2016. Article describes Gord Downie's efforts to raise awareness about the dark legacy of residential schools.

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Title: First came truth. Now comes the hard part.

URL: http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/first-came-truth-now-comes-the-hard-part/

Description: Published 25 June 2015. Award-winning author Joseph Boyden writes about truth, reconciliation, and the government response.

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Title: Understanding between aboriginals, non-aboriginals key to reconciliation, Sinclair says

URL: http://www.saultstar.com/2015/07/30/understanding-between-aboriginals-non-aboriginals-key-to-reconciliation-sinclair-says/

Description: An article detailing the ongoing work of Justice Murray Sinclair to achieve reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians.

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Title: Gord Downie’s Secret Path delivers on its heavy ambition

URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/gord-downies-secret-path-delivers-on-its-heavy-ambition/article32407765/

Description: Gord Downie brings attention to the history of residential schools with the 10-song album Secret Path and accompanying graphic novel by Jeff Lemire.

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Title: Gord Downie to release album, graphic novel about residential schools

URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/gord-downie-to-release-album-graphic-novel-about-residential-schools/article31784065/

Description: Canadian musician Gord Downie is releasing an album and graphic novel about Chanie Wenjack, who died after running away from the Cecilia Jeffrey Indian Residential School in Kenora, Ont., in October, 1966.

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Title: Legal misstep lets Catholic Church off hook for residential schools compensation

URL: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/legal-misstep-lets-catholics-off-hook-for-residential-schools-compensation/article29657424/

Description: Published 17 April 2016. Article argues that a miscommunication by a federal lawyer allowed the Catholic Church to renege on its obligation to try to raise $25-million to pay for healing programs for the survivors of Indian residential schools.

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Title: Syrian children at Toronto hotel get aboriginal-themed welcome

URL: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/03/13/syrian-children-at-toronto-hotel-get-aboriginal-themed-welcome.html?utm_content=bufferc18e0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Description: Published 13 March 2016.

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Title: What Indigenous reconciliation means for millennials

URL: http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2016/03/21/what-indigenous-reconciliation-means-for-millennials.html?utm_content=bufferb999e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Description: Published 21 March 2016. This opinion-piece argues that it is time for non-Indigenous millennial Canadians to think more seriously about the relationship they want to build with Indigenous communities

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Title: Sudbury to host reconciliation conference

URL: http://www.thesudburystar.com/2016/03/14/sudbury-to-host-reconciliation-conference?utm_content=buffer392bd&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Description: Published 14 March 2016. Youth from across the country gather in Sudbury from March 17-19 for the Canadian Roots Exchange National Youth Reconciliation Conference: Niigaanzhaadaa, Moving Forward Together, Avançons ensemble.

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Title: Catholic church in Canada repudiates ‘Doctrine of Discovery’ and ‘terra nullius’

URL: https://tworowtimes.com/news/catholic-church-canada-repudiates-doctrine-discovery-terra-nullius/

Description: Published 30 March 2016. As part of a national response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Call to Action 48 by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Catholic leaders have expressed support for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People and repudiates illegitimate concepts and principles used by Europeans to justify the seizure of land previously held by Indigenous Peoples.

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Title: Justin Trudeau pledges reconciliation in Canada after Aboriginal abuse

URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/15/justin-trudeau-pledges-reconciliation-canada-aboriginal-abuse/

Description: Published 15 December 2015. The forcible separation of some 150,000 children from their families over more than 100 years was an attempt to end the existence of Aboriginals in Canada, a report concluded.

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Title: Canada's indigenous schools policy was 'cultural genocide', says report

URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/02/canada-indigenous-schools-cultural-genocide-report/

Description: Published 2 June 2015. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission delivers its verdict on church-run residential institutions. It finds residential schools to be one of Canadian history’s ‘darkest and most troubling chapters’.

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