Residential schools

Thames Valley trustees pushed back on some names proposed for four new London-area schools because they would be named after people.

A 12-year-old Indigenous student hasn’t returned to her London classroom for months since being handed a quiz that even Thames Valley District school board officials are calling “harmful” and “triggering.”

The London-area's largest school board is forging ahead with the naming of four new schools, striking a committee of trustees and administrators to select each one.

The smudging ceremony in the courtroom before Craig French was sentenced for fentanyl trafficking aimed to honour ancestors and cleanse bodies and minds. The ceremony is rarely seen in the Superior Court of Justice. Before it began, there was an explanation how the Indigenous ceremony was considered to be “sacred

Potentially renaming two London elementary schools divided trustees this week as they struggled with balancing community feedback and a tight budget with equity issues amid what some say is a flawed process. Read More

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As Canada marks its third National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, public events are planned in London and nearby to honour survivors and children who never returned from the nation's Indigenous residential schools. Read More