This year’s Gabriel Commanda Walk took on added significance as the city of Val-d’Or and the Indigenous community continue to work on improving relations following last fall’s crisis of confidence in provincial police. An estimated 1000 people gathered March 21 […]

Just in time for New Year’s Eve, author Joseph Boyden received news that rounded out 2015 as a year of enormous accomplishment. The accolades previously included the position of Honorary Witness to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and […]

“Closing the Gap: Building Nations, Asserting Sovereignty” was the theme of this year’s annual general assembly of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), which focused on how to transform the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the UN […]

The nine survivors who launched a lawsuit against the federal government for failing to find information about crimes against children committed at Moose Factory’s Bishop Horden Hall residential school could set a precedent for survivors across the country. Lawyers for […]

I remember hope and what it means. I had such great hopes when the report by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples came out in 1996. I had such hope when the Kelowna Accord was produced in 2005. I still […]

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada held a closing event in Ottawa (Algonquin Territory) between May 31 and June 3, beginning with a five-kilometre healing walk across the bridge from Gatineau, Quebec. On June 2, the Commission released the […]

Justice Murray Sinclair, the Ojibway chair of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, is considering endorsing a growing movement among Canada’s Indigenous communities to call upon the Vatican to repeal the Papal Bulls of Discovery, which granted explorers in the 15th […]