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'Many survivors'stories remain difficult to hear, or even to comprehend. But we cannot permit discomfort to prevent us from accepting the truth. Rather, it should set the course towards our actions in future.'
Bruce CHEADLE
The Canadian Press
OTTAWA — The time for frank apologies for Canada’s treatment of its first peoples is over and must make way for a change in behaviour, the chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission said on the eve of his long-awaited report’s release.
“Truth and apologies are achieved through words, important words, yes,” Justice Murray Sinclair said Monday.
“But the next step, reconciliation, is achieved only by acting differently.”
Five years and $60 million have gone into the six-volume study of Canada’s residential schools, which were established in the 1840s to “take the Indian out of the child” and lasted until the 1990s.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper kicked off the long reconciliation process with a moving apology from
the government of Canada in the House of Commons in June 2008, with the commission getting off to a wobbly start the following year.
The original cast of three commissioners all resigned before the project hit its stride, eventually visiting hundreds of communities and hearing testimony from 7,000 survivors.
“Many survivors’ stories remain
Five things to know about Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
OTTAWA — The Truth and Reconciliation Commons examining Canada's now-defunct residential school system is scheduled to release its final report Tuesday. Here are five things to know about the commission.
1. The commission was established as part of the 2007 Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, which also included money to pay for the commission's work.
2. The commission is led by Justice Murray Sinclair, Manitoba's first aboriginal justice. The other commissioners are Marie Wilson, a journalist, university lecturer and former senior manager at several Crown corporations; and Chief Wilton Littlechild, a lawyer and former Progressive Conservative MP.
— continued on page 4
Truth and Reconciliation Commission Chair Justice Murray Sinclair speaks during the Grand entry ceremony during the second day of closing events for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Ottawa on Monday.
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difficult to hear, or even to comprehend,” Sinclair said of the litany of physical, sexual and mental abuse that too often characterized residential schools.
“But we cannot permit discomfort to prevent us from accepting the truth. Rather, it should set the course towards our actions in future.”
— see ‘THERE CAN, page 4
Prince George resident Normand Constant won $1 million in Friday's Maxmillion draw.
P.G. man wins
Citizen staff
Prince George is home to a new millionaire.
Normand Constant is $1 million richer after his numbers were drawn in Friday’s Maxmil-lion draw.
Constant has been playing Lotto Max for years but he wasn’t planning on purchasing what ended up being the winning ticket.
“I ran into a friend near the lotto booth in Walmart and on a whim, I decided to play at that location,” Constant said.
Over the weekend, Constant received a call from his girlfriend informing him that someone in Prince George won $1 million, which prompted him to selfcheck a few of his tickets.
“I had multiple tickets to check but it wasn’t until I checked my last ticket that my jaw dropped
when I saw all of the zeros and at that moment, I knew that I was the big Prince George winner,” recalled a jubilant Constant.
As for how he will spend the winnings, Constant sees a fully loaded Cadillac Escalade in his near future and a trip back home to Montreal to show the new car off. He is also thinking about purchasing his girlfriend her dream car: a Chevy Camaro.
“Words cannot describe how I feel; I haven’t been able to sleep since I checked my ticket and I received the best news of my life,” said Constant.
The winning ticket was purchased at Walmart in Prince George.
There have been five Maxmil-lion winners in the last 30 days in B.C. The next Lotto Max draw this coming Friday is for a $50 million jackpot plus 50 Maxmillions.
Guns thefts not reason for store closure, co-owner says
Mark NIELSEN Citizen staff mnielsen@pgctizen.ca
A series of break and enters in which more than 30 firearms were stolen has had nothing to do with the recent closure of a Prince George hunting and fishing store, according to one of the outlet’s co-owners.
Rather, Mark Van Leeuwen said on Monday that Nechako Outdoors was given notice in about mid-May that it had to be out of its 2629 Vance Rd. location by the end of the month because the building had been sold to a new owner.
He said he and his partners are now in the process of narrowing
down their options for a new home in Prince George but have not yet made a final decision.
Over the course of three separate early-morning break and enters, roughly three dozen firearms were stolen from the store.
Following the third break and enter, Van Leeuwen said the RCMP’s firearms officer did ask them to move the remainder of their shotguns and rifles to their Vanderhoof store while investigators figured out who was committing the crimes.
Shortly after complying with that request, “we found out we had to move,” Van Leeuwen said. — see SECURITY, page 3
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