Archive - May 4, 2008

Getting to the truth about Canada's Indian Residential Schools is going to be a challenge

As the following three stories show, getting to the truth about residential schools is going to be a long and difficult road for all Canadians to take ...

From the Globe and Mail

Residential school payouts spark pain and death

UNNATI GANDHI - May 1, 2008

Canada's Tibet(s) - similar treatment of First Nations for those who want to understand

From Rabble.ca 

Canada's Tibet(s) 

by Martin Lukacs - May 2, 2008

In this small, impoverished northern village, people eke out a miserable existence. One of the world's most powerful countries occupies their land, plunders their resources, interferes with their governance and seems intent on assimilating them into wider society.