Editorial: Window of opportunity
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article39479
- Author
- Sison, Marites N.
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2015 March
- Author
- Sison, Marites N.
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2015 March
- Volume
- 141
- Issue
- 3
- Page
- 4
- Notes
- "This newspaper's website, anglicanjournal.com, has launched 'Eyewitness: Special Coverage of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)'. The web page (http://bit.ly/luJLMAp) compiles the newspaper's extensive and award-wining coverage of the TRC national events, beginning in 2010 in Winnipeg. The collection of more than 150 stories, photographs and videos offers a comprehensive look at the impact of the Indian residential school system on aboriginal people across Canada". "The Journal hopes that Eyewitness will contribute to further understanding about what has been dubbed 'Canada's shame' and encourage more conversations and action". "In June [2015], the TRC will end its four-year term, with the seventh and final national event to be held in Ottawa. A key question that needs to be answered is whether Canadians have listened and, if so, what are they prepared to do about what they have heard. A statement made by TRC commissioner Marie Wilson at the Winnipeg event lends particular resonance: 'What we have kept repeating is if the TRC ends up being a series of very well-intentioned activities that lead only to aboriginal people talking to themselves, our country will have missed the best opportunity that we had in nation building, in possibly our entire history'". "The reality is that the residential school legacy remains either a polarizing issue or a non-issue in some parts of the church. The Primate's Commission on the Doctrine of Discovery, Reconciliation and Healing will need to address this ... part of the commission's mandate is to move forward with reconciliation and address continuing injustices faced by Canada's indigenous communities. There is much work to be done".
- Subjects
- Anglican Journal
- Web sites - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Eyewitness
- Canada. Truth and Reconciliation Commission
- Indigenous peoples - Canada - Residential schools
- Indigenous peoples - Canada - Residential schools - Anglican Church of Canada
- Indigenous peoples - Canada
- Wilson, Marie
- Reconciliation - Canada
- Reconciliation - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Anglican Church of Canada. Primate's Commission on Discovery, Reconciliation and Justice