Indigenous judge, senator and TRC chair Murray Sinclair has died
A former judge and senator, one of Sinclair's biggest roles was chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into residential schools.
Murray Sinclair
Should mandatory minimum sentencing exist? Supreme Court rulings highlight ongoing debate
A trio of Supreme Court decisions Friday overturned one rule on mandatory minimum sentencing but upheld two others, highlighting Canada's ongoing debate on how to approach the contentious topic.
Màmawi Together began its work on reconciliation years before the word reached Canada’s vocabulary
What began as a Dene honour song in a public school has transformed into a national-looking organization doing the hard work of reconciliation.
Murray Sinclair to help AFN with conflict resolution
Murray Sinclair, a former senator and commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, will help the Assembly of First Nations with conflict resolution in 2023, national chief RoseAnne Archibald said on Tuesday, December 6, 2022.
Communities share stories of search for unmarked graves
On a clear summer day in August, Rebecca Blake found herself standing in a cemetery outside Edmonton searching for the graves of Inuvialuit who died in the South during a tuberculosis epidemic.
Liberal steps to remove mandatory minimums doesn't go far enough: Murray Sinclair
The former chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission says Liberal legislation to remove some mandatory minimum penalties from the Criminal Code doesn't go far enough.
‘Our country’s history is complicated – but you don’t make it better by ignoring it or glossing over it’: Murray Sinclair
It was a day that centered survivors and their stories, but also demanded that reconciliation march forward each and every day.
Non-Indigenous Catholics reflect on ‘the history we never learned in school’
While the Pope led an open-air mass in Edmonton on Tuesday, non-Indigenous Catholic parishioners reflected on their part in reconciliation.
Indigenous child welfare settlement of $40 billion announced by Ottawa
Ottawa announced on Tuesday, January 4, 2022, it had secured agreements in principle to compensate First Nations children harmed by its underfunding of child welfare, revealing for the first time early details about what the historic arrangement will cover.
Discovery of unmarked graves sparked nationwide reconciliation conversation
Murray Sinclair, like so many other Indigenous leaders, says the discovery by First Nations of hundreds of unmarked graves at former residential school sites has led to more people learning, and accepting, what survivors of these institutions experienced.
First Nations children to receive federal compensation
The Liberal government is preparing to spend $40 billion to compensate First Nations children harmed by Ottawa's underfunding of child and family services on reserve, as well as on reforming the current system.
Lynn Beyak has retired, but residential school denial remains a barrier to reconciliation
Retired Conservative senator Lynn Beyak made residential school denialism a cause célèbre in Canada, writes Sean Carleton.
Reconciliation delayed and anti-Indigenous racism increasing: TRC commissioners
Five years after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission issued its final report, commissioners Murray Sinclair, Wilton Littlechild and Marie Wilson are coming together to voice their concerns about the slow pace of reconciliation in Canada.
Papal apology over residential schools should have been a no-brainer
Almost two-thirds of Canada’s 130 residential schools were run by the Catholic Church and many atrocities (physical, sexual, and psychological abuse perpetuated at the hands of nuns and priests and other religious staff members) were committed in the name of “beating the Indian” out of Indigenous children and aggressively converting them to Christianity.
Philpott calls emergency meeting with provinces on Indigenous child welfare
Indigenous Services Minister Jane Philpott is calling for an emergency meeting early next year on Aboriginal child welfare, likening the current state of affairs to Canada's residential school legacy that forcibly removed young people from their culture and families.