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October 16, 2021

From pain to forgiveness: A residential school survivor shares his story

Cree residential school survivor Don Tourangeau, centre, at St. Joseph the Worker Parish in Richmond, B.C., with pastor Fr. Pierre Ducharme and friend and parishioner Rhonda Caris. About 250 people listened to Tourangeau share his story as a residential school survivor.

VANCOUVER -- Rousing applause sounded as Cree elder Don Tourangeau embraced Fr. Pierre Ducharme at St. Joseph the Worker Parish in Richmond, B.C., on Canada’s first National Day of Truth and Reconciliation.

Published in Canada
June 10, 2021

Glen Argan: We have a duty to listen to survivors

Children's shoes line a memorial on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School June 6, 2021. The remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, were found at the site in May in Kamloops, British Columbia.

Residents of my Edmonton neighbourhood are setting up front yard signs of solidarity to honour the 215 former students at the Kamloops Residential School whose remains were found outside the school. As well, demonstrations were held in some centres regarding the detection of these unmarked graves. This discovery has moved people in a way that earlier revelations about the schools did not.

Published in Glen Argan
May 8, 2018

Pope Francis unlikely to be swayed by apology motion

Pope Francis walks in procession as he arrives to celebrate Mass at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Rome May 6.

OTTAWA – Pope Francis is unlikely to be swayed by a House of Commons near-unanimous motion calling on him to apologize in Canada for abuses at Catholic run residential schools, said Archbishop Richard Gagnon.

Published in Canada
April 27, 2018

Editorial: Misguided debate

CCCB president Bishop Lionel Gendron of Saint-Jean-Longueuil at a news conference on Parliament Hill April 18.

Canadian bishops must not have seen the hornets nest they were stepping into March 28 when they issued a somewhat ambiguously worded letter to Canada’s Indigenous peoples. 

Published in Editorial