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The Road to Reconciliation & Reconciliaction
Thursday Sept. 30 is a new federal holiday: the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation — billed by Ottawa as an opportunity to ‘recognize and commemorate the legacy of residential schools (through) a day of quiet reflection or participation in a community event.’ It’s also Orange Shirt Day, marked since 2013 to honour residential-school survivors and those who didn’t make it home. And to ask non-Indigenous Canadians to learn about and reflect on what the Truth and Reconciliation Commission called the “cultural genocide” in the residential schools. To the First Nations LNG Alliance, this is absolutely not your typical take-a-day-off-work federal…
