Truth and Reconciliation - Hamilton City Magazine

Musical collaboration offers healing on the road to reconciliation

By Meredith MacLeod Nov 13, 2024

'Visual album' Walking Through the Fire brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists to explore joy, along with the pain of genocide, residential schools, culture loss and displacement. It screens at The Westdale Nov. 17. When violinist and Sultans of String founder Chris McKhool heard from…

City Life

Indigenous-led child care: A chance to right a historic wrong

By Madeline Wilson Shaw Sep 30, 2023

On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we must talk about true healing from the devastating legacy of residential schools in Canada. From 1883 to 1996, Indian residential and day schools across Canada forcefully removed Indigenous children from their families, igniting generations of…

Arts + Culture

Honouring Indigenous art

By HCM Oct 4, 2022

To mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Beckett Fine Art exhibit Respect features the art of Arthur Shilling, Tom Wilson, Kyle Joedicke, and many others. Each year, Sept. 30 marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. The day honours the children who never returned home…