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Orange Shirt Day, also known as the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, means so many things at once. That it has two names is just one window into that reality.

On September 30, Montrealers gathered at the Sir George-Etienne Cartier Monument in Montreal for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day. 

What was a huge event at John Abbott College, involving two Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) council chiefs, several federal ministers and members of parliament (MP) including Indigenous Services minister Mandy Gull-Masty, a lot of media coverage, and dozens of students, started off with a simple letter sent to Gull-Masty by the CEGEP’s Indigenous Students Club.

The Mohawk Mothers, also known as the Kanien’kehá:ka Kahnistensera, say they will be filing an interlocutory motion with Quebec’s Superior Court in the coming weeks, the latest move in a years-long court battle concerning excavation work at the sites of the former Royal Victoria Hospital and the Allan Memorial Institute.

The fourth annual McGill Legacy Game, the lacrosse game on September 30 to honour the Indigenous roots of lacrosse, was the biggest yet this year, with many fans in the stands at Percival-Molson Stadium wearing orange to see the Redbirds and University of Ottawa Gee-Gees in action.

Community members are invited to join in remembering the children who didn’t come home for this year’s Orange Shirt Day, with a community breakfast scheduled for Tuesday morning at the Golden Age Club.

Concordia University has cancelled its annual powwow, what was once a fall tradition and longstanding cultural event that draws Indigenous students, alumni, and community members to the downtown campus.

For the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation next Tuesday, the Montreal Canadiens will be doing something special to showcase some of the Indigenous artists that live right outside Tiohtià:ke: they’ll be wearing beadwork pins of their logo, made by artists from Kahnawake and Kanesatake.

To open the first week of May like a crisp page of chapter five for the year 2025, the first line of this story began with the title “National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQI+ People.”

One of Canada’s leading child welfare experts says that Canada has committed “a huge breach of good faith negotiations” after the government announced that it would not be participating in national negotiations on a $47.8 billion settlement deal regarding child welfare, instead pursuing discussions for a deal with only chiefs in Ontario.