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Arrested at a wedding, on Dante Street
In 1940, Italian Canadians were interned without charge. In 2021, the prime minister offered an official apology in the House of Commons, beginning with a Montreal story.
ReadForgiving without forgetting
Forgiveness erases neither the wrong nor the memory. Where it has taken root, the truth first had to be told.
ReadJordan first: when the child comes before the paperwork
Jordan River Anderson died in 2005 while two governments argued over who would pay for his care; his name became a simple principle: the child first.
ReadJudging the person, not just the act
Since the Gladue and Ipeelee decisions, a judge must consider an Indigenous person's history before sentencing them. Yet federal prisons have never been so Indigenous.
ReadMore than our worst moment
A memorial in Alabama names the victims of lynching. Telling the truth without reducing anyone to their worst act: a path toward shared humanity.
ReadNinety-four gestures to stitch a country back together
In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada turned thousands of testimonies into 94 calls to action addressed to everyone.
ReadNorthern Ireland: sharing power to share the future
After thirty years of violence, the 1998 Good Friday Agreement bet that yesterday's enemies could govern together.
ReadRepairing, for their children and for ours
In 1988, Canada recognized the injustice done to Japanese Canadians during the war and chose to repair, not just to regret.
ReadRwanda and South Africa: judging, telling the truth, living together again
From Rwanda to South Africa, societies chose to rebuild an "us" after the unthinkable.
ReadThe Pines, thirty-six years later
In the summer of 1990, a pine forest in Kanesatake became the heart of a 78-day crisis. Since then, Mohawk and Quebecer neighbours have been slowly learning to talk to each other.
ReadThe battalion no one wanted to see
More than 600 Black volunteers served Canada in 1917-1918, kept away from the front. In 2022, the country finally apologized to them.
ReadThe day Quebec apologized
After the Viens Commission, the Premier of Quebec apologized to First Nations and Inuit in 2019. The real work was just beginning.
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