Truth & reconciliation: Beyond the orange shirt By Gilles Cyrenne Local Journalism Initiative Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Amy Romer, works as a mentor for Megaphone’s peer newsroom called The Shift in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.The Shift is made up of a diverse group of individuals with lived experience of poverty, who are reporting from the DTES instead of being reported on. Sept. 30 is Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation — a federal statutory holiday. It is meant to honour Indigenous children who never returned home from residential schools and survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities. The last day of September is also Orange Shirt Day, an Indigenous-led movement started by Phyllis (Jack) Webstad to raise awareness of the inter-generational harms of residential schools while…
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