Post by Jaga on Jul 1, 2021 23:00:02 GMT -7
There are terrible news of uncovering hundreds of unmarked graves in Canada near compulsory schools for indigenous people. I cannot imagine how 5 years old children were forcefully taken from their families to the institutions for so many years.
nypost.com/2021/07/01/canada-day-muted-as-country-reckons-with-colonial-history/
‘No reason to celebrate’: Canada Day muted as country reckons with dark colonial history
OTTAWA, July 1 – Multiple cities scrapped Canada Day celebrations on Thursday after the discovery of hundreds of remains of children in unmarked graves at former indigenous schools sparked a reckoning with the country’s colonial past.
Calls to scale back or cancel celebrations snowballed after, beginning in May, almost 1,000 unmarked graves were found at former residential schools in British Columbia and Saskatchewan that were mainly run by the Catholic Church and funded by the government.
Traditionally the holiday is celebrated with backyard barbecues and fireworks much like July 4 in the United States. This year, however, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the day would be “a time for reflection.”
A #CancelCanadaDay march was being held in Ottawa, the capital, while vigils and rallies were held across the country to honor the victims and survivors of Canada’s residential school system. The schools forcibly separated indigenous children from their families, in what the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2015 called “cultural genocide.”
Hundreds marched through downtown Toronto on Thursday in support of the missing indigenous children, wearing orange shirts and holding placards. Indigenous performer Danielle Migwans performed a healing dance during the march.
Orange has come to symbolize the acknowledgment of the victims of the country’s residential school system.
“Canada is having a reckoning with its history,” said Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, a University of Toronto sociology professor who studies race, crime and criminal justice.
nypost.com/2021/07/01/canada-day-muted-as-country-reckons-with-colonial-history/
‘No reason to celebrate’: Canada Day muted as country reckons with dark colonial history
OTTAWA, July 1 – Multiple cities scrapped Canada Day celebrations on Thursday after the discovery of hundreds of remains of children in unmarked graves at former indigenous schools sparked a reckoning with the country’s colonial past.
Calls to scale back or cancel celebrations snowballed after, beginning in May, almost 1,000 unmarked graves were found at former residential schools in British Columbia and Saskatchewan that were mainly run by the Catholic Church and funded by the government.
Traditionally the holiday is celebrated with backyard barbecues and fireworks much like July 4 in the United States. This year, however, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the day would be “a time for reflection.”
A #CancelCanadaDay march was being held in Ottawa, the capital, while vigils and rallies were held across the country to honor the victims and survivors of Canada’s residential school system. The schools forcibly separated indigenous children from their families, in what the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2015 called “cultural genocide.”
Hundreds marched through downtown Toronto on Thursday in support of the missing indigenous children, wearing orange shirts and holding placards. Indigenous performer Danielle Migwans performed a healing dance during the march.
Orange has come to symbolize the acknowledgment of the victims of the country’s residential school system.
“Canada is having a reckoning with its history,” said Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, a University of Toronto sociology professor who studies race, crime and criminal justice.
