FIRST NATION RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL GRAVESITE NEAR KAMLOOPS, BC

By Archbishop Emeritus Sylvain Lavoie OMI National Spiritual Advisor

The discovery of 215 children found buried at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in unmarked graves on the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation community is surely impacting all of us.

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A DREAM COMMING TRUE
PROPOSAL TO DEVELOP A RICE FARM

By Michael Nizankiewicz, ITVP, America 1
Council General International

In late February 2020, I visited the last Superior Council in Haiti before the Covid pandemic shut down the world. I was given a very warm and humbling welcome by Haiti’s Society leadership and spent several days with them visiting a DC convent and other noted places that work with the Society there.

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GRACE BY GIVING GRACE

By John Carey, Chair
National Spirituality Committee

An Aboriginal gentleman once contacted our Society of Saint Vincent de Paul conference and, in keeping with our mission, two ladies were assigned to visit him at his home. He lived in a basement apartment with an entrance in the back of the building, close to a transit train station. On their way to meet with him, the ladies noticed an ambulance at the station.

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FROM ST. ALBERT TO ULUKHAKTOK, NWT, WITH LOVE

By Jennifer HENDERSON/St. Albert Gazette

Every year in the summer, a barge full of sea cans sails up the Mackenzie River from Hay River, NWT, heading to the Beaufort Sea.

With carefully calculated timing, it stops in at some of the Northwest Territories' most remote communities: Tsiigehtchic, Paulatuk, Aklavik, Sachs Harbour, Fort McPherson, Tuktoyaktuk, Fort Good Hope and, sometime in August, Ulukhaktok.

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CHANGING TIMES
NATIONAL HOUSING CAMPAIGN

Almost 250,000 purpose built rental units were built in the City of Toronto before 1980. From 1980 to 2018 less than 20,000 units have been built. The same ratio can be found in almost every community across Canada. Even with the rollout of the National Housing Strategy there remains a shortfall of much needed affordable housing stock. In Ottawa alone that shortfall is 27,000 homes!

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PLANTING EDUCATIONAL
SEEDS OF HOPE

The educational gap experienced by children of low-income families has never been greater. Children were educationally disadvantaged even before COVID hit and online learning became the narrower avenue to educational success. What better time for us as Vincentians to start to track our progress in assisting the almost 150,000 children in need that we serve across Canada. And it’s clear that we have made a solid start.

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