I’m slightly ashamed to admit that when I read the headline, I didn’t let it into my heart: a mass grave with the remains of 215 children near a former Indian residential school near Kamloops, BC. We’ve known for some time these graves exist. We’ve known for some time that a shocking proportion of the Indigenous children taken to residential schools did not return home, regularly without advance notice to their parents. We’ve known for some time how devastatingly misguided and evil this whole experiment was. And so my heart had hardened.

Greg PowellJune 3, 2021