Truth and Reconciliation Day

What is Truth and Reconciliation Day?

by Kelly Chia, Staff Writer Content warning: residential schools, racial trauma, sexual assault, and violence September 30, 2021, will be Canada’s first Truth and Reconciliation Day. The day was finally made official on June 3, 2021, when both houses of Parliament passed Bill-C. This is a time of reckoning with Canada’s harmful legacy of residential schools, as well as honouring their survivors. This day of commemoration has been item 80 on the 94 Calls to Action offered by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for the last six years. This is so the history and legacy of residential schools are…

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