August 17th, 2008
As clicking on the image will show, Sherry Ambridge’s students at Dryden High School have decorated their tiles for Project of Heart. Sherry is the Aboriginal Alternative Education teacher at the school, which is in the Keewatin Patricia District School Board. Thank you to Sherry and all of her students.
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June 9th, 2008
..mainstream Canadians wouldn’t profess such ignorance”
So says Winnipeg educator Angela Busch in this special report filed earlier this week by CBC reporter Karen Paul for the Stolen Children series on Radio One; it’s an interview with students from Project of Heart partner school Southeast Collegiate in Winnipeg and was recorded with teacher Angela’s history class.
The audio was originally aired on World Report on Sunday, June 8.
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June 9th, 2008
On the day before the Prime Minister’s official apology CBC Ottawa asked Project of Heart’s Greta Neepin and Sylvia Smith into the studio to talk about what the apology means to survivors and how the residential school era is being taught in schools like Elizabeth Wyn Wood Alternate Site.
The segment includes interviews with Wyn Wood students Violet Roseheart and Tommy Peacock.
Our thanks PODCO New Media for converting the file to podcast format.
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June 2nd, 2008
The truth about the Indian Residential Schooling era makes uncomfortable reading for many Canadians, and that can sometimes include the editors of our increasingly-concentrated news media.
However, in this article on the Reuters site, no punches are pulled. As Canadians perhaps it is time we reflect on the way our “good-guy” image is taking a beating in the international news media, who are not afraid to report on the truths many of us seem to find unpalatable.
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May 25th, 2008
As part of Aboriginal Awareness Week, Project of Heart held a workshop for employees at Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada (IRSRC) and representatives from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Embracing the POH initiative, participants had positive comments on the workshop experience: “I learned that Canadians do care about history and how it informs the present” and “it would be great to see this in my son’s school” were typical of the responses the demonstration elicited.
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May 19th, 2008
Educators from the Ottawa area came together on May 10th to participate in Project of Heart. and learn about the impact of Indian Residential Schooling on various Indigenous communities in Ontario.
At the end of the day, Residential school survivor Greta Neepin arrived to smudge the participants and the decorated tiles.
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May 19th, 2008
Participant quotes from the students of Winnipeg’s Southeast Collegiate were very powerful — and worth sharing here:
“When they started Residential Schools, everything was different. They lost a lot of hope. When our people went to Residential Schools, they were physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually abused by clergy and school staff. Today, many of the Residential School survivors have been drinking a lot. They still cannot stop the pain from the past.” Myrna F Read the rest of this entry »
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April 30th, 2008
Thanks to teacher Angela Busch and her class at South East Collegiate in Winnipeg, Project of Heart has its first partner classroom in Western Canada.
For a view of the SEC participants at work – and their amazing completed tiles – check the slideshow here.
April 30th will go down as a very proud day for the social justice component of P.O.H. as well – and that is because Angela’s students were featured on APTN’s Primetime National News talking about their letters to Prime Minister Harper concerning the still-to-be announced government apology to the survivors of the Residential Schools.
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April 30th, 2008
On March 20 residential school survivors and honoured guests joined students and staff at Elizabeth Wyn Wood Alternate School in Ottawa at the first-ever tile-smudging ceremony for Project of Heart.
Our thanks go out to Lisgar Collegiate student Petra Smith who photographed the event; an annoted slideshow of the morning’s programme can be seen here.
( note: if you don’t see the descriptions at first, hover your mouse over the centre of the photo and click on the “i” that will appear. )
Delighting the audience with a high-tempo performance were the dancers from the Urban Aboriginal School – our thanks go out to them for coming across the city to join us for this special programme of events.
For those interested in viewing the “What Can I Do?” aspect of the project, click here to see examples of student/staff contributions.
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March 4th, 2008
Project of Heart paid a return visit to the Museum of Civilization in Gatineau on March 2 to witness the start of the Aboriginal and Church Leaders tour. After the national capital area, the tour will be moving on to Vancouver, Saskatoon and Winnipeg.
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