Cons and Churches impede Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The worst part about this story is that there is almost nothing
surprising about it.  Our current government is among the most
secretive and unaccountable in our nation’s history. Couple that
to the various churches not typically known for their
transparency or accountability and we shouldn’t expect anything
less than further delays and obfuscation in the residential
school Truth and Reconciliation Commission.  What our nation’s
founders did to First Nations children was abhorrent. We don’t
need to further salt these wounds.  Apparently we don’t pick on
natives enough  There’s a very conservative Jewish Christian
Zionist student who occasionally shares some shallow thoughts at
SFU’s The Peak where I have submitted a few articles to, and he
has decided that “secular progressives” are not anti-religion,
they’re merely anti-Christian.  His evidence? Progressives were
apparently more respectful of aboriginal beliefs at a tar-sands
debate than Judeo-Chr