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‘Residential School Perverted Everything that Was Beautiful’
Gina Laing lives a truth for survivors. Healing, never complete, is a process of myriad small acts of rebellion.
Meghan Mast is a Winnipeg-based multimedia journalist who has covered agriculture, politics, hydro, health and the climate crisis. Her work has appeared on the CBC and in the Winnipeg Free Press, the Globe and Mail and Megaphone magazine. SHARES Over time, Gina Laing has come to love the water again.
Photo by Meghan Mast. [Editor’s note: In June 2015, journalist Meghan Mast introduced Tyee readers to Gina Laing and Dennis Bob, two residential school survivors who had testified about their experiences to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. They shared at the time how they managed to live with the trauma they’d endured. Recently, Mast reconnected with Laing and Bob, and we publish an updated version of the two-part series starting today.]