National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Canadian day of remembrance for victims of residential schools
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (NDTR; French: Journée nationale de la vérité et de la réconciliation; sometimes shortened to T&R Day), originally and still colloquially known as Orange Shirt Day (French: Jour du chandail orange), is a Canadian day of memorial to recognize the atrocities and multi-generational effects of the Canadian Indian residential school system. It occurs every year on September 30. As of March 2023, NDTR is a statutory holiday for: federal government employees and private-sector employees to whom the Canada Labour Code applies; provincial government employees in Alberta, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. all workers in British Columbia, Manitoba, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Prince Edward Island, and Yukon. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, established to document the effects of the residential school system, ran from 2008 to 2015, and concluded that the attempt to forcefully assimilate Indigenous communities was a cultural genocide. The...
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