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the secretive world of japanese sumo. good president interest they be secure a 6th time in power join us on april 11th for that shot in action. the award winning our choice returns the stories of those striving to reduce or negative impact on the planet has president joe biden kept his campaign promises we'll have special coverage and in-depth analysis of his 1st $100.00 days in the oval office april on al-jazeera. 'd allowing maryam namazie in london a quick look at the main stories now a train collision in egypt has killed at least 32 people and injured 165 more the country's wealth or she says someone triggered the emergency brakes on one of the trains and the other crashed into it from behind or about not now. the tangled wreckage from these train carriages reveals the sheer force of the
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crash that killed dozens of people c.c.t.v. footage shows the moment of impact and so had province south of cairo egypt's railway authority says the 1st train stopped when someone triggers its emergency brakes another crashed into it from behind causing tree carriages the flip over parts landed in the nearby fields bystanders rushed to help survivors while dozens of ambulances scrambled to the scene the latest imagine we need an official to come see what has happened we can't remove the people from underneath the trains it's a shame look at the children we need to crying but they don't have one people or did we can even save the ones who are alive. president abdel fattah el-sisi says those who caused the crash will be punished but i don't believe it's the right the right thing to do and it's not the right way to go i believe is
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a serious serious problem and serious issues when it comes to fundamental services given to the egyptian people including of course the way away egypt's road network has been plagued with train disasters in 2000 to 373 people died when people were trapped on a train as a fire ripped to the carriages in southern cairo and 2 years ago a train ran into a barrier at high speed a cairo's main railway station killing more than 20 people there are more than $1000.00 train accidents annually in egypt and that is according to the government's statistical authority. i have a hard time believing that that's. the product of incompetence on the part of what level and or what we have is an infrastructure problem we have a government problem this month the world bank approved a loan of $440000000.00 to modernize some of egypt's $5000.00 comes around network
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but it falls short of the $14000000000.00 the government previously said was needed to overhaul the system for the victims and their relatives in this latest tragedy any upgrades if they do happen are too late nor about a madly out to 0. and all the headlines ethiopia is saying eritrea has agreed to withdraw its forces from 10 gray where they've been accused of killing raping and torturing civilians it was only this week that the ethiopian prime minister again i finally admitted that eritrea and forces are inside the northern region fighting broke out there in november after a local to great people's liberation front attacked federal army bases. as normal people continue to arrive at the border a u.s. politicians trying to trading blame for whose policies have caused the issue delegations from both parties are visiting immigration centers in texas house
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democrats say that to fix the inhumane situation of child separation under the policies of donald trump but a group of senate republicans say the influx is a crisis of joe biden's making the 80 percent of undocumented migrants try them speakers have family in the u.s. who can be reunited with but there's this battle because of successive republican democratic it would assertion so people spending the money on the bureaucracy to humanely process of the inevitable by great tree flow in the spring time it happens always do every other year certainly and so they're spending billions of dollars both democrats and republicans on on militarizing the border not giving clear pathways for legal migration often for people in central america and one of the stories of bring you france was not complicit in their london genocide the overwhelming responsibility for the event is the finding of a commission set up by the french government which found the state was blind in its support for what it described as a racist regime about a 100000 many ethnic people were slaughtered of the space of 3 months. canada's
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my name is roberta hello i'm from the mohawk nation grammar territory. i'm a survivor of the mohawk institute residential school i was here as a student from 1957 to january 961 and i came here with 6 of my family. a lot of their memories here knows for sure. these are really familiar to me. used to play on these on the girl side i was playing down in the basement of the girl side and my mother had come out to the visiting area and the little kids had said your mother is here you want to go see her knight and they were in iran but when i got to the door way over there i
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froze right in front of the stairs and i couldn't move and i just stood there crying crying crying and the more i cried the worse it got and i could see myself i could actually like an out of body experience i could see this little girl crying and it was me but i and the little girl said well if you don't don't you love your mother don't you want to see your mother and i said you know i did i really did she say she's going to leave you you know she's going to leave if you don't go see her so at that time i knew that she would goal then i things just kind of came back i just like i just took off running up those stairs. and i went and sat on my mother and let that time all i did was cry. i just cried. when i was in because it was here i loved her and we just saw her have to part with her year. because my mother was a she was
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a really good mood you know. i am. see. the the. now much. to say a mood good times here they are all written by the bed and there is enormous there is a tremendous amount of evil that went on here. so the whole institution itself was run by fear so it was very regimented more like a military style you lined up for everything to line up for your meals and lined up to go to school you lined up to go to church just like that followed that routine in the e.u. would be ok if you followed it and didn't break the rules you know so you just follow the rules. they didn't have the freedom as is
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the child or is it young teenager and always kind of wonders is her version of somebody but we got them both at 6 o'clock and we're sent down to the cold play room and it was always cold and in the basement early morning still a lot of chilling air and yet they put us in the big cement room in and we had to keep warm whoever we could. be there and all kinds of farm were they work on the farm so long that. i picked up a certain discipline the poor hard worker to get me where i'm going. and i think at some point there was somebody here that i don't know if it was a kid or a supervisor told me i would never leave here you know so that really stuck in my mind that i was going to be in this place forever. you're isolated all you see is this world around you this is it that was my world i didn't learn about all those
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other things that were going on until my adult life i didn't know there was all those other residential schools i don't think anybody in canada knew that much so it was kept very secret up and yet when you start to look at every residential school across canada you find the same thing. came to the morgan city we're going to is. 6 or 7 years old and i spent 6 years here. i was picked up on a new. review and. walking on a road. we're going to visit my grandmother one day and waste july day like in 93. there is for a lesson one girl my sister. and we
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came over that little rise over there and we hadn't buried down here. in the black car for long so i know us. and we didn't know who it was it's i. the driver said you know they were right there. he said no we didn't know where they were. we kept on walking and they kept face of us in the car. and they kept training at us to get in. and we refused for. a 100 yards that way. and they offered us some way screaming jello at the restaurant intent. and i had a scream there to be finished we all loaded back up in the car but they never went back the way they came they went around away from the reason i fell asleep. and i never woke up until we were coming up to the moon against him. when after
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chisholm united church and chisholm township is about 5 miles out here and my 1st set were the sessions meeting effect in there was 2 other members and the minister and myself. and the minister was going through the agenda there were to talk about him she mentioned the residential school system. and all of a sudden i started to shake and broke down crying had no idea oh i. i didn't know what this was about a tall. and from that i ended up for going to my doctor and for some depressed help for depression and he referred me to a psychologist in north be. and to curb probably 20 minutes to determine the biggest part of my problem was from that incident 50 years earlier. those to the station there in the years e.m.p.
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and we had a territorial jail there which most times i was in jail guarded night and in this day shift i happened to be the same to whatever came on through the door it would be sometime between november of 64 and april of 65 on a day shift there was assigned to assist an agent from the residential school system to pick up 2 children from a family in fort smith northwest territories i went to the door of this home and the woman who lived there knew why we were there to know she know that there are 22 daughters were being sent to residential schools the mother was crying both children were crying probably 6 and 8 years old. and i took the 6 year old from her arms actually and turned them over to the agent. he jumped in his car and part took off to the airport in aerospace and the end of that night i saw i never saw him i
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don't remember the children's names but i'll never forget the price. at the time i didn't like the idea of taking kids away from their family bothered me and cursed being in the r.c.m.p. had no alternative who could complain about it. the only thing i knew about the in the residential schools was a place where the good formal education and i didn't see any problem with it. since then i've come to realize what they were a boat and know differently now and that's part of the story that i want to tell. it took up maybe 5 minutes of my life. and i buried it back in 6465. and about 50 years later it came back to haunt me.
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and of course. we were sitting at this at this very spot i'm not sure if it was exactly the same table we're sitting at this very spot. at a board meeting. you remember ron you were on the board at the time and and the board at that time had decided that they wanted to study this book called a healing journey for us all and part of that took us into residential schools well let me let me say 1st clearly that i think the residential school
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history within canada is one of the the the greatest tragedies if not the greatest tragedy in our whole. history as a country. it's it's the damage that's been done to so many lives and. the damage that it continues to be done and that will be felt it generationally. is is just it's beyond one that we it's hard to even take it in. feel. presidential schools are schools that were set up by the government of canada and
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there are other countries that have the same thing but it was a policy that was put into place to bring all as many indigenous people as possible into these schools to educate them into the european way of life to take you away from your culture your language all your traditions and that's what it's about. in order to sever those ties in your culture in your language they had to separate children from families and communities we wore uniforms you all dress the same you had your hair cut the same you were all one and it was to assimilate us to make sure we didn't have an indian left in us when we left here.
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the took us to the church or recently we had say prayers and things like that. we weren't allowed to talk in our language we had to speak english but it wasn't indoctrination like you can even put us in one room and you just darkness all day long or anything like that just the way. the routine of the place it was in it was in the routine. that in in speak anything but english. well you went to the white man's school you went the way men church you were the way men's clothes all those are built in was in the classroom lecture anything it was there was ingrained in the system there's
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a mode leben years the. it was taken from them there was no mother no father figures no he said good night or come and see you if you're sick personal didn't know me look empty except that they put his in a big player room similar to this dining room. and we sort of looked after ourselves. what was going on across this country that so many children were being taken so many children are being put into residential schools and my thing is if if they were such a wonderful school they were models everybody should i had him now i need if
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europeans everybody should have had a residential school not just one race of people is a very racist policy you know but that's what the intent was is to kill the indian in the child and pretty much they've done it. so you get punished for being who you are. it's a school where you're punished for the 3rd least the interactions and. the the punishments were. severe. and punishment for things you never did you never did. i i don't think i ever did anything wrong that would deserve a strap never and you got it. you never knew it. when you went over
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the line they let you known they give you d.d. beating soandso a symbol but it was more than that it was terrorism that accompanied each beating. for tell me when you have children put in an electric chair for entertainment offer punishment lesser crimes against humanity and yet different things and i've heard of other guys have an electric currents and they brought us into a place they call the press room where most of the beatings were no name. and we were near one of the time and got a good shellacking with the litters leather strap and. everybody's. i was afraid of it but. everybody knew they were going to get it sooner or later i just remember them crying there was a lot of crying in this place a lot of tears. and yet we find out it was like. thousands upon thousands of children that were being abused despite the beatings and the ferocity of some in
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the beginning we still defied the authority to run away. the boy say how his over 60 boys. displayed this number each of us are lonely beyond despair. from within we each had our own battles to fight. we were lost lonely scared and confused her biggest battle was to keep her secrets. are laser shrouded in secrecy no one could know we all clicked through the knew the kids were being raped and walesa in large numbers suddenly the babies. no one could know no one would ever know. saw him in the learn had to be
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a nicer place so he tried to escape. the colonel scene when ironing those caught were ferociously been relentlessly beaten with the other machine or belts carried by all the staff including the principal the cane beaten until liz beamed echoed out to the earth in the monkey burns down the lean way up the city streets beaten until there was silence that was the scariest despite this we ran away i believe each of us tried to least once to escape that worries prison the halley's plays with demons all of.
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us. ethel and. i was a boy others. at that far and less at time and time again day after day and boy and i are aware some that come live there. some even miss me somehow. another error came. this came out of there feeling so dirty rotten lower as you can imagine and i thought every kid over there knew that i had what had been in me. but. i think it all and then because none ever bothered me and i never asked what happened in there i think we all got it on fire. but it is a nasty dirty face. but here's where i got him a lesson here. saying against the wall here and he had his way with me.
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it's i think it's very very possible that children did die here but we'll never know all assist i've heard too many different stories for it to be all lies if they're not buried here they're probably buried somewhere on the property and it's just one of those things that in time we may come across it but this this we can investigate if there's any truth to it if there is anything in there just just from the people that i know from the survivors that i know that say that yeah they remember this being something and you don't just put a window at the bottom of a basement for any for no reason. meets
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just pull it. if you bring the fame and fortune and power of the total that's one of $100.00 investigators on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. every. one. of her. oh i'm maryam namazie in london with a quick roundup of the top stories now at least 32 people have been killed off to 2 trains crashed in egypt woman 100 people were injured in the collision which happened in the center of the country 360 kilometers south of cairo the rail authority says the emergency brakes were triggered on the 1st train bringing it to a sudden halt
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a 2nd train which was traveling in the same direction slammed into the back of it accidents a fairly common on the country's aging railways but the president says as responsible as be punished in all the headlines ethiopia says eritrea is a great withdraw its forces from 10 gray where they've been accused of killing raping and torturing civilians it was only this week that ethiopian prime minister ahmed finally admitted that eritrean troops are in the northern region fighting broke out there in november after the local to great people's liberation front attacked federal army bases the group is a common enemy for the governments of both countries. as more and more people continue to arrive at the u.s. border with mexico politicians from both sides of the aisle visiting immigrations and his in texas house democrats say they're that fix the a humane situation of child separation on the policies of donald trump but a group of senate republicans say the influx is a crisis of joe biden's making he says the surge in arrivals is the result of
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a seasonal increase there 80 percent of undocumented migrant farm seekers have family in the u.s. who they can be reunited with but that is bottled because of successive republican democratic between assertions of people spending the money on the bureaucracy to humanely process of their level by great freeflow in the springtime of albums always do every other year certainly and so they're spending billions of dollars both democrats and republicans on all militarizing the border not giving clear pathways for legal migration often for people in central america. and france was not complicit in their a wand and genocide but baz overwhelming responsibilities for what took place this is the finding of a commission set up by the french government which has found the state was blind in its support for what it calls a racist regime behind the killings about a 100000 mainly ethnic shit see people was still ahead of the space of 3 months under the hutu regime france was an active supporter of the government at the time in the report's authors say it could have done much more to prevent the genocide
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i'll be back with the news hour in 25 minutes time c.n.n. . i like finding old friends and when he has what i know here by from the residential school the mohawk institute when we 1st went in there we were my sister and i were separated into groups and i had one older girl that took me under her wing and my sister don we need look after her well i don't you know when i was there i don't even though remember going there i don't even remember the people think the media but in my home i remember that. oh no i was just there so then i met this this older. person on this older girl kind of took care of me when i was growing up. and she
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told me when she's ready to leave because she was in 1213 maybe 14 she said that she was going to ask her mother to come and get me and think she could take me home to be her little sister. but didn't happen because. she she. because she got hurt. hurt her bad i think. i think somebody hit her on a tree. and i don't know i think she died but i'm not really. sure but i don't know. why anyway. i've been able to say in the last few years that they killed her
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and i was there i saw. what happened to her. it's just. sometimes a nice dream up or she would come to me in a dream by that it hurts to talk a lot. because i remember when to use that. to get back we are. the back and we run and play and. and when i got her to pick me up and. give me a hug and sending them to christ. like the way we should we did when we met and. after they smashed her in the tree. you know that song sometimes you
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can hear it on t.v. on the river shows. that's that's a song. even if a glass breaks today or out scream and sometimes my family get mad and. i say who are i care how that seems to sound that's it scares me and. makes me would like. as. the scene is a drawing child who just surely will for was flailing away with his head above water in a raging river he can swim but the risk with that unrelenting he
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slips under the surface is really for the trying to catch him in that leaf say to breath but he knows he's going under for good what tears run upon this child's mind knowing can imagine. those sites will go down with him the one to live as seen above in the light under surfaces of the river. as he slowly sinks is here is silky and wavy in the room still removing so slowly and reaching for a new purpose except his will tells him to reach up. a lady's surface phase in his body has no more movement except bend of the curb he tumbled lay physically along the water in into oblivion.
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i left saying it come back one day and attacked those people that had attacked me in they didn't just attack me i think they attacked everything. but. i wrote a book called our legacy and. since i wrote dead book they don't have this great desire to go back a morn beat the whopping. i haven't forgiven but they're not around to forgive when i realize. the effect that this type of government administration had on 1000 people in my time.
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it disgusts me that i'm a canadian and i always thought canada was the greatest country in the world. and i'm ashamed to say i'm canadian because it wasn't a government it's not. the government wanted access to mineral rights mining lumbering fisheries all natural resources that canada has and they all are on his native land of course they were here 1st so the government i guess determined that rather than go to war
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with the natives they would eliminate them. and i know from my own experience people that i've norm they were raised by whites in the residential schools so when the refinish there their parents didn't accept them if they were native and the white community did not accept them because they were native so these people news 150000 children grew up in limbo with no roots no background and no place they could call home. i knew ahead of time when i believe i went to school that day in and it was the last day of school in summer. everything seemed greater than the grass seemed
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greener the sky was blue or. and. it was just a great day. he come home and they're like you're a stranger i'm a stranger to them but they're a stranger to me too so i had to go find who my relatives were how was i connected to this community i knew where i came from i didn't know that but i just didn't know holly fit in. a 150000 people the children were taken from their families. and as rural a result of that 7 generations of native people grew up with no roots. this is my friend carol croce whom i have known for a few years and appreciate her friendship and and what kind of things
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she can tell us about her 1st nations so. having my father my aunt and my uncles. gone to residential school my father never discussed his upbringing he was silent the home that we lived in was silent around who he was and how he was raised so prior to the age of 30 i had no idea or no understanding of what had happened to my family and i knew that there was something up like there was something wrong but i didn't know what that was when i was finding all of these things about residential school when i was 30 and my father had already passed away my mother was still alive and i started asking michael my aunt questions it began to i began to
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realize how strange everything was and it began to see what those schools did and what the effect that we had and why my brothers and i had struggled so much with our emotional life this was wrong to teach children away from their parents and heard them into a school against their will it just blew me away and then when ron when you had the courage to stand up and see that this was wrong and that you knew it was wrong when it happened instead of standing up and said i witnessed this in it didn't look that bad at. i can't tell you what that does for people. i really can't.
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i don't care what things you might have done in your life. i know what's a whole lot because. they were that. they were completely erased. but what you don't hear about is what happens to people when their kids are ripped away. and those kids come back broken but they come to 2 adults that are insane and that's the other half so nobody is ok.
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too. but thanks and ask for the survivors to stand up for a moment to be here with us survivors please stand. the children in the grandchildren of survivors please stand up as things began to change when the survivors of the residential school experience went to court beginning in the 1980 s. but not really successful until the mid 1990 s. when the courts finally ruled that they could sue the government for the abuses
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that went on in schools and the churches as well the root of the t r c as in survivors themselves survivors said we demand attention and we demand recognition for what it is and was that we experience in the residential schools i had a problem. i had a hearing problem i would mock i went he. i would not. put it on she. was for it so that it. was. just as easy for me to try to be still. we were the recipient of their most private moments in their life often and we as listeners had to be there for them because we weren't just
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representing the commission we were actually representing the hearing of the entire country. well as a commissioner for the truth and reconciliation commission listening to the stories of residential school survivors it was difficult emotionally very challenging but there's no doubt that when they cried often we did as commissioners we always made it a point to repeat back to the survivors what it was that they had told us because we wanted them to know that we had heard them and that we believed them. be where and they think we. ought to publish. why but really for what i put.
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i could i could tell my grandchildren. like look my great privilege of north the evil of the. but with my own jailor it i can't. it hurts it's certainly the think boat. what i missed. it was a very emotional. very emotional time because the more you got into it the more the more things started to come up about residential school that you would start to remember that you'd listen to everybody and. it was a very very difficult time so i was involved right from that right from when the lawsuit started so the truth and reconciliation commission of canada was asked to assist the survivors to move from an air of being victims of the residential school experience to becoming. involved in a process of establishing
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a better relationship with the government and with the church as the story of the truth of residential schools in this country is a story about the resilience of children they have supported me in this work but at great loss to the relationships we could have had and which we will now try to recapture. were. 2 2 6 residential schools there's. a real week in canada. this is not.
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only about. resilience there's a whole lot of truth that to has been shared it's also about reconciliation and there's not going to be any truth in the in my telling or in new york dying it's going to take 2 or 3 or 4 generations. to work all this out to get is the history books and have become commonplace that the guy next door knows with athan the future of canada will students be told that this is not an integral part. of everything we are as a country everything we are as canadians that is a promise we need for here all of us to get.
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through the closing ceremonies of the truth and reconciliation commission had a 5 kilometer walk from god all quebec to the city hall inaudible it was approximately $7000.00 people participating. many natives many non-natives there was different church groups civic groups people just bringing their families out to participate and support the native americans. by the time the commission's work ended almost 7 years later that we had established the credibility of the commission not only in the eyes of survivors but in the eyes of the country and the truth and reconciliation commission has brought an image of canada forward that now enclose this history.
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the national center for truth and reconciliation was created by the truth and reconciliation commission in order to preserve all of the materials that were collected under the mandate to the t.r. see. more than just preserving these materials and survivors right across the country of asked us to ensure that their statements and the other material that was collected finds their way into the hands of educators into the hands of researchers so we have a very important and critical role in continuing to expose the truth ensure canadians understand the truth of what's happened in this country and for the contribute ongoing understanding healing and reconciliation in this country. canadians no longer have an excuse though which i think is one of the most critical things about this process of truth or reconciliation. the i
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when every residential school survivor is healed i'll be. going nuts that's how it went for me. and i'm until they're healed i will be and i'll keep harking to anybody who would listen. there's always hope without hope we're done. and now the house has to be hope. and when i look at my grandchildren i think there's a lot of hope. i see positive things for i don't.
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but. we got some quater weather now coming in across the east and sort of all striving we've had some west the weather coming through tasmania once again not a little system rolling across the by will produce some wet weather there across a taxi pushing across parts of victoria as well befana to save me by this date 27 celsius so as flood waters begin to recede into that east aside off to southwest fun to try to burst but at around 30 celsius and pleasant weather showers around type opening up around the top and you might catch wanted to showers in around the
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interior as we go on through saturday they'll tend to fade as we go on into sunday much of a straight up fine and dry by this day should be a little drive in tasmania but still some. i was rolling through here and notice what's the weather just making its way towards new zealand so turning a little more autumnal as we go through the next couple of days we've got wetter weather making us whites watch japan over the next day or 2 cloud and the rain rolling out of that eastern side of china spreading across the korean peninsula make the most of sas day in japan the 19 celsius and pleasant sunshine in tokyo because it does go downhill that wetter weather will come through the right will be heavy at times possibility of some localized flooding that wet weather spreading to all parts by the end of the day. on counted the cost to the rich countries in big pharma give developing countries the technology speed up and brought her back to. this thing in mental health could
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