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Good morning.
Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, to honour the victims and survivors, and to commemorate the damaging legacy, of Canada’s Indian Residential School system.
“When Sept. 30 was invented as Orange Shirt Day in 2013, it was designed to honour the experiences of residential school survivors,” writes Niigaan Sinclair in his column today. “What it’s turned into, though, is an opportunity to take a step together, in unity, and demonstrate a commitment to all.”
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Last year, 10,000 orange-clad citizens walked from The Forks to St. John’s Park for a powwow. (John Woods / The Canadian Press files)
A series of events is scheduled for downtown Winnipeg, at The Forks and the RBC Convention Centre, as well as special programming at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the Manitoba Museum and the Manitoba Children’s Museum. You can read about these events and more here.
Wayne Mason, the executive director of Wa-Say Healing Centre, and his team will host the second annual Orange Shirt Day powwow.
Tréchelle Bunn, a member of Birdtail Sioux Dakota Nation who is also a University of Manitoba Bisons hockey player, organized the first half-marathon for Sept. 30, named the Reconciliation Run.
Former marathoner and residential school survivor Charlie Bittern, 75, retraced the steps of a harrowing 80-kilometre run and found healing with others; his experience is the basis for a new film, Bimibatoo-win: Where I Ran.
This evening at 7 p.m., the Blue Bombers host the Saskatchewan Roughriders at IG Field in what is being billed as a Truth and Reconciliation Game.
For more perspectives, articles and coverage on today’s events, see the special links section below.
— David Fuller
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