Letters: Setting the record straight on the TRC

Readers discuss the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report and other topics of the day

Dec 24, 2022

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Canadian Press/Adrain Wyld — The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s three commissioners

The June 4, 2015 opinion piece Rodney A. Clifton and I wrote (see previous post here or below) provoked a fury of nasty outrage the very next day in a leading national newspaper.

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Debunking the half-truths and exaggerations in the Truth and Reconciliation Report

The following June 4, 2015 opinion piece in a leading national newspaper, written by yours truly in collaboration with Rodney A. Clifton, editor of groundbreaking 2021 collection From Truth Comes Reconciliation, was the first critical evaluation of the…

3 years ago · 6 likes · 3 comments · Hymie Rubenstein

This vitriol demanding that the deeply flawed and incomplete series of Truth and Reconciliation volumes be accepted without question or criticism was first re-published in this newsletter in January 2022. It is re-posted again as an end-of-year special along with the piece that preceded it yesterday and the one that replied to it which will appear later today.

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