January 15, 2010 Book on residential schools 'an exercise in revisionist history'

Indian Residential Schools: Another Picture by Eric Bays is designed to introduce an alternative reading of the residential school story.

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January 1, 2010 Walk a mile in a survivor’s shoes

“What would you do if they came for your kids?”

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January 1, 2010 Truth and reconciliation education for Canada

Expect a massive education campaign about the residential schools and the work of healing and reconciliation with aboriginal people to roll out in the Anglican, United and Presbyterian churches in the coming months.

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December 8, 2009 New Canadians need to understand the First Nations’ story, too

Tears streamed down Toyin Agbaje’s face as she listened to Darlene Ritchie, a Haudenosaunee of the Oneida Nation, talk about the effects of the residential schools and the 1876 Indian Act on the aboriginal peoples of Canada.

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December 8, 2009 Addressing the residential schools legacy

In 1993, Archbishop Michael Peers, then the primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, apologized to aboriginal Anglicans for the church’s involvement in the Indian residential schools

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November 1, 2009 ‘Not everyone was forced’

Eric Bays, former bishop of the diocese of Qu’Appelle, has written a book that some wish he hadn’t.

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November 1, 2009 Emotion rocks Rideau Hall

Governor General Michaelle Jean has urged Canadians to participate in the work of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Canadians have a collective responsibility to confront the country’s history with aboriginal peoples and have the opportunity “to right a historical wrong,” said Jean.

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October 16, 2009 Truth and Reconciliation Commission gathers momentum at Rideau Hall

Governor General Michaëlle Jean has led an emotion-filled ceremony at Rideau Hall to jump-start the work of a commission created to look into the dark legacy of the Indian residential schools in Canada.

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October 1, 2009 Bishops say church needs to address issue of unpaid priests

The whole church will need to address the issue of non-stipendiary (unpaid) priests, according to Archbishop Fred Hiltz, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, and bishops from the Council of the North.

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September 1, 2009 ‘That’s my grandfather!’

FOR TWO-AND-a-half years, the photographs sat on Dean Bob Osborne’s desk gathering dust.

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