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Canada Residential School Survivors’ Flag on Parliament Hill

Canada Residential School Survivors’ Flag on Parliament Hill
The Survivors’ flag flies beside the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Aug. 29, 2022. The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld
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So here we go again, with a flag flying on Parliament Hill to commemorate allegedly universal horrors of residential schools for the indigenous. Nobody says there was no abuse, although it’s nothing compared with today’s hell-hole prisons across Canada. They hold more indigenous inmates, nearly 15,000, than at peak enrolment in residential schools, just under 12,000, according to the volume “The History, Part 2” from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC).
Colin Alexander
Colin Alexander
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Colin Alexander was publisher of the Yellowknife News of the North. His most recent book is “Justice on Trial: Jordan Peterson’s case and others show we need to fix the broken system.”
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