Exploring Theme: "Calls for Queen to apologize"

Toronto Star (Canadian Press): Some Indigenous leaders and community members say they’re concerned about making progress on reconciliation with King Charles III. Treaty 8 Grand Chief Arthur Noskey says the Queen’s death last week wasn’t good timing, as First Nations were making progress in working with the Crown toward upholding treaty agreements.  “We were building...

Critics reckon with Queen’s complicated reign and to what extent she supported colonial agenda The Queen travelled to more than 100 countries since 1952. But her death inevitably raises questions about whether bonds forcibly formed by colonization can endure. Toronto Star: Queen Elizabeth II is being remembered in a myriad of ways after her death,...

BBC: Indigenous leaders met Prince Charles in Canada and asked for an apology from the Queen over the “assimilation and genocide” of indigenous schoolchildren. The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall have been on a three-day tour of Canada – where the Queen is head of state – to mark the 96-year-old monarch’s Platinum...

Assembly of First Nations: AFN National Chief RoseAnne Archibald issued the following statement following her attendance at the Platinum Jubilee reception at Rideau Hall in Ottawa this evening as part of the Canadian Royal Tour of Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall. The event brought together Canadians who have...