UPDATE: Comment from education department spokesperson Jasmine Flemming added Friday, June 18. The correspondence course material arrived on shalan joudry’s doorstep in the spring, requested from Nova Scotia’s education system for joudry’s teenage daughter, Malaika. But it wasn’t until Wednesday night, June 16, that Malaika felt ready to tell her mom about the blatantly racist […]
Shubenacadie Indian Residential School
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The residential school legacy of Kamloops and beyond
When I heard the news that a series of unmarked graves containing the remains of 215 children were discovered at the former site of the Kamloops Residential school, I was shocked. But not surprised. My name is Bryson, I am the son of a Residential School Survivor, the nephew of Residential School Survivors and the […]
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Reconciliation means looking into Shubenacadie residential school, too
From 1930 to 1967, Shubenacadie Residential School was the only one of its kind to exist in Atlantic Canada. Over the course of 37 years, more than 1,000 children are estimated to have been taken to the school—10 percent of the Mi’kmaw children in the province. While it was dubbed an “educational institution” by the […]
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Truth & Reconciliation Commission comes to Halifax
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established as part of the settlement of a class-action lawsuit related to the native residential school system in Canada. The purpose of the commission is to take testimony from the thousands of native people who were victimized by the residential schools (both directly, at the schools, and the continuing […]
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission to come to Halifax
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada is coming to Halifax, October 26-29. The four-day meeting at the World Trade and Convention Centre is the third of seven “national events” planned by the commission, bringing together survivors of residential schools and their families, academics and representatives of churches and government, with the goal of engaging […]