President's Message
Truth and Reconciliation
Over the past few weeks, there have been distressing stories in the news about the tragic and sobering finding of 215 Indigenous children’s remains in a mass grave in B.C. and the senseless murder of the Afzaal family in Ontario who had gone for a simple walk on a pleasant evening.
News stories like this are difficult to hear, and I know there are some who prefer to change the station when these appear as the details are too upsetting to them. While I understand becoming upset hearing about these occurrences, I do also wonder, who is listening to these stories and have they been falling on deaf ears? Do these painful events feel distant to us because they did not occur in Alberta? Could these tragedies happen here in our home province? Or maybe they already have and still do?
I am writing this between National Indigenous Peoples Day and Canada Day. As I do so ...
