Indigenous student trustee shines light on missing, murdered women

They weren’t in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Niigonii White-Eye, an Indigenous student trustee on the Thames Valley District school board, wants schoolkids and their teachers to understand this about why Indigenous women continue to disappear or be murdered. “It’s a systemic issue that goes back generations,” he said. Prior to Red Dress […]

Baranyai: Why are words with power to heal so hard to say?

Why is it so hard to apologize? Amid recent wall-to-wall coverage of two very different, very public apologies, the question resonates: Why are words with so much power to heal, so difficult to offer? In one corner, the actor who once played Muhammad Ali apologized for his pugnacious response to presenter Chris Rock, not at […]

Indigenous leaders speak out after Pope’s apology for residential schools

In a historic and long-awaited first, Pope Francis issued a formal apology to Indigenous delegates on Friday for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in Canada’s residential school system. Speaking in Italian to a Metis, Inuit and First Nations delegation, the pontiff asked for God’s forgiveness for the “deplorable conduct” of members of the church. The […]