residential schools

Father Paul Bringleson spoke to his congregation in Flin Flon, Man., in a powerful sermon apologizing for residential schools and calling out the failures of Catholic Church leaders

Stephen Maher: We are at the beginning, not the end, of a process of reassessing our history, and filling in the silences that are needed to get at the truth

An Indigenous mother describes the exhaustion of hearing about residential school trauma, and her determination to share those stories with the next generation

Senator Mary Jane McCallum, who went to residential school at the age of five, offers a statement following the discovery of a mass grave at the site of a former school

Six organizations you can turn your attention to

The first prime minister will no longer be put on a pedestal as the debate turns to what to put up in his place

Andrew MacDougall: A holiday marking the residential schools tragedy is an easy—if overdue—gesture. But picking a date on a calendar won’t be enough to solve our collective history problem

Canada systematically forced kids into residential schools – forbidden to speak their language or practice their culture. So how are teachers talking to our kids about it?

Scott Gilmore: Canadian politicians are masters of the official apology. But it’s time to recognize these rituals for what they are: distractions.

Opinion: MPs have voted to ask the Pope to apologize for the Catholic Church’s role in residential schools—and it’s due time he did the right thing