The Truth of Reconciliation | Unpublished
Hello!
Source Feed: Walrus
Author: Various Contributors
Publication Date: September 29, 2025 - 06:30

The Truth of Reconciliation

September 29, 2025
.entry-title { margin-bottom: 16px !important; } .special-series-body img { width: 100%; max-width: 280px !important; display: block; margin: 0 auto 16px auto !important; } #sexy_author_bio_widget-2 { display: none; } .sidebar-above-footer { padding-top: 32px !important; padding-bottom: 32px !important; } .hm-post-style-5.th-hero-container #hero_title_holder h1.entry-title{ font-family: "Georgia", serif !important; font-size: 3.7rem !important; font-weight: 100 !important; font-style: bold; padding-bottom: 0; } h3.summer22-hed { text-align: center; font-size: 2rem !important; font-style: bold; font-weight: 100 !important; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:0; } p.summer22-byline { text-align: center; font-size: 18px; }

On December 15, 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presented its Final Report on the impacts of residential schools, just eighteen years after the last institution closed its doors. What the TRC compiled was a record of a system designed to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children, including at least 3,200 who died there. Murray Sinclair, one of the TRC’s three commissioners, who passed away last November, maintained that the true number of deaths was far higher.

As Justin Trudeau, then the newly elected prime minister, accepted the report from Sinclair, he thanked survivors for their courage, saying, “Today, there is reason for hope . . . we need nothing less than a total renewal of the relationship between Canada and Indigenous peoples.” He promised to “completely implement” the ninety-four Calls to Action in the Final Report, which outlined the changes necessary to repair that relationship.

But, a decade later, most of those calls have not been answered. . .

(Read more from guest editor Michelle Cyca’s introduction to this series marking ten years since the TRC released its report.)

Truth Child Welfare Economic Development Gender Land Media The post The Truth of Reconciliation first appeared on The Walrus.


Unpublished Newswire

 
A new climate conference is kicking off in Toronto that's aiming to highlighting Canada's clean tech and climate innovation sectors.
October 1, 2025 - 06:47 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
.text-block-underneath { text-align: center; } .main_housing p > a { text-decoration: underline !important; } .th-hero-container.hm-post-style-6 { display: none !important; } .text-block-underneath { color: #333; text-align: center; left: 0; right: 0; max-width: 874.75px; display: block; margin: 0 auto; } .text-block-underneath h4{ font-family: "GT Sectra"; font-size: 3rem; line-height: 3.5rem; } .text-block-underneath h2{ font-size: 0.88rem; font-weight: 900; font-family: "Source Sans Pro"; } .text-block-underneath p { text-transform: uppercase; } .text-block-underneath h3{...
October 1, 2025 - 06:30 | Richard Warnica | Walrus
A bout halfway through Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith’s keynote address to Web Summit Vancouver in May, as he expounded on how AI might benefit humanity, things took an abrupt turn. Responsible AI, he said, “means, for us, building data centres . . . that are powered by carbon free energy, like the renewal of Three Mile Island . . .” The four iconic cylindrical towers of Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear plant, the site of America’s worst nuclear accident, appeared on a giant screen above the standing-room-only crowd...
October 1, 2025 - 06:29 | Christopher Pollon | Walrus