Exploring Theme: "Indigenous History"

APTN News: Residential school survivors from across Canada are in Winnipeg for a conference hosted by the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. Called “Breaking the Colonial Mindset,” the conference is focusing on trauma and surviving with the memories of the schools. Gabor Maté, an expert on addiction, trauma and childhood development, addressed the survivors’...

Manitoba Métis Federation hopes items can be loaned to national heritage centre CBC News: Never-before-seen writings by Louis Riel displayed at a Calgary exhibition provide a glimpse into the personal life of the man considered the father of Manitoba, during his years of exile between the two historic Métis resistances he led in Western Canada. Devotion: Louis...

APARITA BHANDARI SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL The Globe and Mail: From the beginning, Metis-Dene writer-director Marie Clements had planned to shoot parts of her new film, Bones of Crows, at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. She established a relationship with the community to provide support to cast and crew members who belonged to that...

CBC News: Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre faced criticism from his political opponents Friday for delivering a speech to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy (FCPP), a controversial Winnipeg-based group that has been associated with efforts to downplay the effects of residential schools on Indigenous children and oppose vaccine mandates. Before introducing Poilievre on Friday, the group’s president, Peter Holle, said...

Thirteen years after the Government of Canada offered a formal apology to the survivors of the residential school system and families, 68 percent of Canadians polled still say they were either unaware of the severity of abuses at residential schools or completely shocked by it. A poll conducted by the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, the...