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QUIZ: How much do you know about the history Canada’s residential schools?

In honour of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Silver Creek Elementary School (SCEC) will be hosting the Project Heart Canoe — a canoe of student created artwork that honours residential school survivors and expresses a message of healing. (Project Heart Canoe)
The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, on Sept. 30, is a sombre time for reflection
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            The RCMP logo is seen in Surrey, B.C., on Friday April 13, 2018. The RCMP says it has introduced mandatory security awareness training for employees, one of several changes prompted by the 2019 arrest of a senior civilian member for allegedly leaking classified information. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

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            Communities are gathering across Canada today to recognize the third annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Students carry a ceremonial cloth with the names of children who died in residential schools and were identified in the National Student Memorial Register, during Gidinawendimin – We Are All Related, an event for youth featuring Residential School Survivors, Knowledge Keepers, and Indigenous music and culture, part of Truth and Reconciliation Week, in Ottawa, on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

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            Chief of the defence staff Gen. Wayne Eyre waits to appear before the Standing Commitee on National Defence in Ottawa on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. The country's top soldier and outside experts agree cutting almost $1 billion from the Department of National Defence budget will affect the Armed Forces' capabilities. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby

            Defence minister insists $1B spending reduction is not a budget cut
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            Overall view of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaking in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. Yaroslav Hunka watches and applauds at far right, centre. It later emerged that Hunka had fought in Ukraine during the Second World War with the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, a volunteer unit created by the Nazis to help fight the Soviet Union. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Patrick Doyle

            Head of Canadian Ukrainian group defends man who fought for unit created by Nazis
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            Politicians and others who support policies that would require parental permission for teachers to use a student’s preferred pronouns at school say they are about including parents in the lives of their children. Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah, the executive director of the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity. Owusu-Akyeeah, in her role as a commissioner for the Ottawa People’s Commission on the Convoy Occupation, speaks during a news conference in Ottawa, on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby

            Debate over pronouns pits parental rights against children’s, experts say

            Some of the largest school boards across Canada will begin the new school year without formal policies on the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom, despite concerns about how the technology will impact learning and academic integrity. Grade 3 teacher Catherine Rioux-Tache leads her students into class at Sainte-Cecile elementary school on their first day back to school in Montreal, Monday, Aug. 28, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi

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            <div>Beijing and Ottawa are in talks over how to increase flights between Canada and China, following an American deal in June. A passenger checks her phone as an Air China passenger jet taxis past at the Beijing Capital International airport in Beijing, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Ng Han Guan</div>

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            <div>Transportation authorities in the Northwest Territories say the highway out of a community near the Alberta boundary that's being evacuated due to wildfires has now closed. The Northwest Territories provincial flag flies on a flag pole in Ottawa on June 30, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld</div>

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            Edmonton Elks quarterback Tre Ford (2) runs the ball as B.C. Lions' Mathieu Betts (90) and Woody Baron (58) chase during first half CFL action in Edmonton on Friday, September 22, 2023. He’s moved his team into playoff contention — albeit barely — Tre Ford has provided the Edmonton Elks and their beleaguered fans with something much more tangible: hope for the future. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Amber Bracken

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                      Canada’s Kiera Van Ryk spikes the ball in her team’s bronze medal victory over Cuba in the the 2023 NORCECA Senior Women’s Volleyball Continental Championship in Quebec City in a Sunday, Sept. 3, 2023, handout photo. Canada’s women’s volleyball team scored a 3-0 (25-22, 25-22, 25-17) win over Mexico on Saturday, but fell short in its bid to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Norceca, Mathieu Belanger

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                      Only the top 2 teams in the pool will qualify

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                      Around 150 racers took part in a five-day, 1,800-kilometre journey through Alberta and Saskatchewan. (Miles of Mayhem Facebook photo)

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                                Two demonstrators pick up signs outside the Paramount Pictures Studio in Los Angeles, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. Negotiations between striking screenwriters and Hollywood studios have resumed and will continue Thursday, the latest attempt to bring an end to pickets that have brought film and television productions to a halt. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

                                Writers’ union reaches tentative deal with Hollywood studios to end historic strike

                                The union representing screenwriters reached a tentative agreement with Hollywood studios to…

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