June 1, 2000 Primate sees 'profound hope' in troubling times

DEAR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST: I write to share something of this moment in the life of the Anglican Church of Canada. In this troubling time we are faced with litigation so costly as to change radically our...

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June 1, 2000 Money could run out in 2001

Fredericton Facing bankruptcy perhaps as early as next year and with no commitment from Ottawa to prevent that, General Synod has begun to explore the option of seeking court-ordered protection from creditors. The route...

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June 1, 2000 Too much focus on dollars, aboriginal critics say

Fredericton Healing and reconcilation between Natives and non-Natives may be the goal, but the gulf between the two cultures was readily apparent at the recent Council of General Synod meeting. During a break on the...

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June 1, 2000 Church must pay: poll

Fredericton Four of five Canadians polled say they do not want churches forced into bankruptcy in order to settle residential school lawsuits. But more respondents chose the churches over the federal government when asked who...

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June 1, 2000 Church to hire political organizer

The church is planning to hiring a "political organizer" to seek out people in the dioceses who are personally acquainted with members of Parliament, especially cabinet ministers, to present the church's case on the issue of...

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June 1, 2000 Reunion at Shingwauk

The Children of Shingwauk Alumni Association is inviting all former students and staff of residential schools to a reunion at the site of the former Shingwauk Indian Residential School in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., June 30 to July...

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May 1, 2000 Sins of the Father - Residential Schools special report

The legacy of Indian residential schools is one of physical and emotional scars, nasty lawsuits, a questionable medical study, and suicide. What happens next will shape much of Canada's secular and religious landscape, and determine the fate of many "survivors" of a fatally flawed system.

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May 1, 2000 Sins of the Fathers

Ben Pratt is squeezing a dirty old baseball cap between his beefy fingers. We are seated in a small room in the sparkling new administrative building on the Gordon Indian Reserve in Punnichy, Sask., about 150 kilometres north of...

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May 1, 2000 Who is to blame?

The plight of residential-school "survivors" such as Pratt raises the question of whether God's words in the second of the Ten Commandments - "I will visit the sins of the fathers on the children for three or four...

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May 1, 2000 Not all students, not all teachers

But if all perspectives of Indian residential schools are to be taken into account, it must be understood that these schools were not all bad places run by bad people. "I don't like to be thought of as a villain. I don't...

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