DiscoverOut of Context PodcastEpisode 12: Part 2: TRC Seems to be TBD
Episode 12: Part 2: TRC Seems to be TBD

Episode 12: Part 2: TRC Seems to be TBD

Update: 2021-07-10
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Content/trigger warning: residential schools, genocide, abuse

In this continuation of Episode 12, Caitlin probes a bit further into Alicia's thoughts on the news of children's remains being found in hidden burial sites at former residential schools throughout Canada.  Alicia shares her frustrations with how the news is being handled by average Canadians, and discusses her feelings about celebrating Canada Day.  Education is also a topic of discussion in Part 2, as most Canadians who grew up in the same era as Alicia didn't learn much - if anything - at school about the truths of colonization and the realities of residential schools.

This episode also delves more into the impacts still being felt today by Indigenous communities, and poses many questions about the future of a settler population trying to undo its historic wrongs, while many among that population feel there's nothing more to be done.   As Vie Jones pointed out in Episode 6 of Out of Context, "Reconciliation is a settler concept."  In many spaces, the word has become a salve for white people to make themselves feel better about how their ancestors treated the  first inhabitants of this land.

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Episode 12: Part 2: TRC Seems to be TBD

Episode 12: Part 2: TRC Seems to be TBD

Caitlin Hartlen/Alicia Montague