SkyBlue's Blog – June 2009 Archive (5)

Larry Kusch Winnipeg Free Press 12/06/2009



People gather at Memorial Park Thursday to celebrate the one-year

anniversary of the federal government's public apology to First Nations.

(MIKE.APORIUS@FREEPRESS.MB.CA)



Manitoba teachers will have greater resources this fall to teach grades 9

and 11 students about residential schools, Education Minister Peter

Bjornson told several hundred people marking the first anniversary Thursday

of Prime Minister… Continue

Sarah Douziech, Westerly News, Thursday, June 11, 2009



Premier Gordon Campbell urged British Columbians to consider the part

reconciliation with First Nations peoples can play in developing positive

future relationships, to mark the federal government's historic apology to

residential school survivors made a year ago today.



Campbell said the apology made last year by Prime Minister Stephen Harper

was a beginning, not an end to the reconciliation… Continue

Anglican Church of Canada, June 11, 2009



A year ago today, the Prime Minister of Canada rose in the House of Commons

to make a apology on behalf of all Canadians to the survivors of Indian

Residential Schools. He acknowledged that the policy of assimilation of

Aboriginal Peoples was wrong and expressed remorse for the many abuses

suffered by those who attended the residential schools. “There is,” he

said, “no place in Canada for the attitudes that inspired… Continue

CBC News, Thursday, June 11, 2009



A sunrise ceremony was held in Ottawa Thursday to mark the one-year anniversary of the federal government's historic apology to residential school victims.



The ceremony was one of many planned across the country, which brought politicians, aboriginal leaders and residential school survivors together to mark both the anniversary and the relaunch of Canada's Truth and

Reconciliation Commission.



The commission was formed to… Continue

By Jorge Barrera, Canwest News Service June 11, 2009



OTTAWA — Assembly of First Nations National Chief Phil Fontaine walked

beside Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl on Thursday as they led a

procession of about 1,000 aboriginals, students, union workers and church

officials to the steps of Parliament Hill to mark the first anniversary of

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's apology for residential schools.



On the steps, Fontaine held an eagle feather and… Continue