By Maggie Macintosh, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Winnipeg Free Press The Manitoba Teachers\u2019 Society is petitioning Ottawa to make it illegal to deny, downplay or justify the harms of residential schools. Its e-petition \u2014 formally known as \u201ce-7191\u201d on the House of Commons website \u2014 will close mid-morning Thursday, after a 120-day campaign to collect signatures in support of updating the Criminal Code. \u201cWe won\u2019t tolerate the denialism or the distortion of history,\u201d said Lillian Klausen, who represents 17,000 public school teachers across the province. The union leader said listening to the voices that have long been excluded from history textbooks \u201cis part of trying to reconcile.\u201d More than 2,500 people have signed the national petition she initiated to bolster federal funding for initiatives to combat \u201canti Indigenous hate\u201d and… <\/p>\n
By Maggie Macintosh, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Winnipeg Free Press The Manitoba Teachers\u2019 Society is petitioning Ottawa to make it illegal to deny, downplay or justify the harms of residential schools. Its e-petition \u2014 formally known as \u201ce-7191\u201d on the House of Commons website \u2014 will close mid-morning Thursday, after a 120-day campaign to collect signatures in support of updating the Criminal Code. \u201cWe won\u2019t tolerate the denialism or the distortion of history,\u201d said Lillian Klausen, who represents 17,000 public school teachers across the province. The union leader said listening to the voices that have long been excluded from history textbooks \u201cis part of trying to reconcile.\u201d More than 2,500 people have signed the national petition she initiated to bolster federal funding for initiatives to combat \u201canti Indigenous hate\u201d and... <\/p>\n