Healing through laughter
Healing through laughter is one way to life the heaviness of the Truth and Reconciliation hearings.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
‘All that heavy burden, pretty well gone’
Up to 1,000 residential school survivors along with government and church leaders gathered in Inuvik last week for the second national gathering of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Portrait collection brings back residential school memories
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s national event in Inuvik is a reunion for many of the former students of residential schools.
Holocaust survivor forms bonds with Indian residential school survivors
Forgiving traumatic events in the past has allowed one man to move on in life.
Inuvik TRC event triggers memories on path to healing
The haunting drumming of the Dene opened the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s national event in Inuvik, NWT, Tuesday.
‘We’re not defeated people, we’re hurt, we’re in pain, but we’re strong’
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has wrapped up its Northern hearings.
Stories of abuse, shame amid tears during Yukon TRC hearing
For 12 hours, survivors from the Lower Post Residential School told their stories at the Truth and Reconciliation hearings held last week in Watson Lake, Yukon.
TRC faces travel cost questions
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s second national event is approaching. The week-long gathering is taking place this June in Inuvik, NWT. Over 1,000 residential school survivors and their families are expected to attend.
Residential schools ruptured ‘the mother-child bond’
Truth and Reconciliation commissioner Marie Wilson talks to APTN National News about the experiences of young women forced to attend residential schools