Opinion

Just minutes before Premier Wab Kinew announced a $20-million commitment to help build a new facility for the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba, a young eagle flew over the assembled crowd.

“It’s interesting how things work out like that,” the premier said, referring to the eagle. “It’s amazing to see what the survivors are doing and it’s about the young people.”

It was a perfect afternoon for a centre whose name tells its story.

Ten years ago, the centre was gifted by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to the University of Manitoba.

The centre’s mission — defined by the 94 calls to action of the TRC — was to facilitate research into residential schools, support and advocate for survivors of the schools, provide public education on

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