Episode 363 – Think of the Children

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Streamed live on 6 Jun 2021

What a story to come back to. You may have heard about the 200+ child remains buried on the grounds of the Indian Residential School in Kamloops, British Columbia (Between Vancouver and Calgary). In the century and-a-half of the operations of those schools over 150,000 children never made it home in what’s been described as a “cultural genocide”. The Canadian Government is stepping up to help bring accountability for these events, even if it means to themselves.

There are more broad and far-reaching implications for this type of religiously-operated institution and we’re going to talk at length about this.

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Show Notes

A comment from the Archdiocese of Canada: “The Catholic Church as a whole in Canada was not associated with the residential schools, nor was the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops,” it said.

• CBC Saskatchewan – It’s been an emotional week across Canada, with the discovery of the remains of 215 children in BC https://youtu.be/3AqGwT-IgJI
• Reuters – Canada’s Trudeau blasts Catholic Church for ignoring role in indigenous schools https://tinyurl.com/b6m5e52n
• CBS This Morning – Remains of 215 Indigenous Canadian children found on site of school they were forced to attend https://youtu.be/j_7VXlL34_Q

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