Dressed in a red and blue gown and sash, the Orange Shirt Day founder beamed as she received an honourary doctorate of law from Simon Fraser University on Friday.
From a B.C. residential school survivor awarded an honourary degree, to a Vancouver restaurant awarded a Michelin star, here are the good news stories of the week.
Williams Lake hit the mainstream media with three stories last week. The celebration of Orange Shirt and National Day for Truth and Reconciliation was a positive story. The death of a young firefighter, a very sad one. The land slippage at Terra Ridge is scary.
Tim Hortons and its restaurant owners across Canada are proud to announce that over $1 million was raised for Indigenous organizations through the third annual Orange Sprinkle Donut fundraising campaign. Over the past three years, Tim Hortons and its guests have raised over $3.6 million for the Orange Shirt Society, the Indian Residential School Survivors Society, and New Pathways Foundation in Quebec. These funds have helped provide support for the organizations to do their important wor.
The horrors pressed upon the Indigenous people cannot be overstated, and the fact that these awful indignities continued until the not-too-distant past is even more egregious. By now, most of