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Excitement, Then Ambivalence, For the Pope’s Visit to Quebec
QUEBEC CITY — The smell of cigarette smoke, fruity vape juice and sunscreen might have been a flashback for visitors returning to the sprawling Quebec City park where, two weeks ago, an annual summer music festival drew boisterous crowds. But on Wednesday, the bracing smell of sage, a sacred ingredient used in Indigenous spiritual ceremonies,…
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What Is the Pope Apologizing For on His Visit to Canada
“What residential school was, and still is, is a nightmare.” For more than a century, Indigenous children in Canada were taken from their homes and sent to residential schools to forcibly assimilate them into white society. And thousands were never seen again. Now, more than 20 years after the last school shut down, searches for…
