Manitoba gov’t puts more urgency into honouring Queen than Orange Shirt Day: Residential school survivor
Manitoba gov’t puts more urgency into honouring Queen than Orange Shirt Day: Residential school survivor

By Dave Baxter  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter One residential school survivor says she believes the province put a lot more urgency this week into finding ways to honour and mourn for Queen Elizabeth, than it did into honouring and remembering residential school survivors, and those who never made it home from residential schools. And it’s left her believing the province is not being sincere when it says it is committed to truth and reconciliation. “Once again they have shown it’s just words, but it’s no actions, and no heart,” residential school survivor Vivian Ketchum said on Friday. “Reconciliation involves more than words, reconciliation involves the heart. That’s what they don’t seem to understand.” Last Tuesday, Premier Heather Stefanson announced that Monday will be recognized as a day of mourning to

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