{"id":180359,"date":"2025-09-30T15:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/180359\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T15:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:44:07","slug":"truth-and-reconciliation-day-marked-by-events-in-ottawa-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/180359\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth and Reconciliation Day marked by events in Ottawa, Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OTTAWA \u2014 Today is the fifth National Day for Truth and Reconciliation \u2014 a day where Canadians reflect on the legacy of residential schools and remember the survivors and those who never made it home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The residential school era refers to a period between 1857 and 1996 where 150,000 Indigenous children were forced to attend church-run, government-funded schools where they were barred from speaking their languages in institutions often rife with abuse located far away from their families and communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An estimated 6,000 children died while attending the schools, although experts say the actual number could be much higher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sept. 30, known as Orange Shirt Day or the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, is meant to honour survivors and those who never came home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In Ottawa, Prime Minister Mark Carney will deliver remarks on Parliament Hill at the Remembering the Children gathering, hosted by APTN, CBC and the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Other events are taking place across the country to mark the day, including a legacy gathering in Toronto and a memorial walk in Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 30, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Today is the fifth National Day for Truth and Reconciliation \u2014 a day where Canadians reflect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,47,44,714,715],"class_list":{"0":"post-180359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-national","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-politics","13":"tag-social"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}