{"id":75065,"date":"2021-11-08T09:11:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T14:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=75065"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:54:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:54:48","slug":"norris-and-deer-remembrance-day-flag-raising-discussions-in-canada-pose-questions-about-residential-schools-and-what-we-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/11\/norris-and-deer-remembrance-day-flag-raising-discussions-in-canada-pose-questions-about-residential-schools-and-what-we-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"NORRIS and DEER: Remembrance Day: Flag-raising discussions in Canada pose questions about residential schools and what we remember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trevor Norris, Associate Professor of Educational Studies at Brock University, and Frank Deer, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba, had a piece recently published in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/remembrance-day-flag-raising-discussions-in-canada-pose-questions-about-residential-schools-and-what-we-remember-167764?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20November%208%202021&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20November%208%202021+CID_99e1ba1bf2a7278833d082454cbbf435&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Remembrance%20Day%20Flag-raising%20discussions%20in%20Canada%20pose%20questions%20about%20residential%20schools%20and%20what%20we%20remember\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Conversation<\/a><\/em> about how to honour veterans for Remembrance Day while also respecting the Indigenous children who died in residential schools.<\/p>\n<p>They write:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAs Remembrance Day approaches there have been concerns about\u00a0honouring veterans at the same time as respecting the Indigenous children who died in residential schools.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Assembly of First Nations has called for Canadian flags to be raised before Remembrance Day to\u00a0enable a ceremonial lowering on Indigenous Veterans Day and Remembrance Day. It has also requested that an orange \u201cEvery Child Matters\u201d flag be attached to the Peace Tower and federal buildings.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The\u00a0Canadian flag has been at half-mast\u00a0on government buildings\u00a0since the end of May, following the finding of unmarked graves at the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia. In the lead-up to Nov. 11, it has been unclear when the federal government would raise the Canadian flag.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Remembrance Day and the traumas experienced through residential schools are topics that demand thoughtful engagement \u2014 especially when explored in schools. Now is a good time to consider what is worthwhile observing and remembering.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/remembrance-day-flag-raising-discussions-in-canada-pose-questions-about-residential-schools-and-what-we-remember-167764?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20November%208%202021&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20Canada%20for%20November%208%202021+CID_99e1ba1bf2a7278833d082454cbbf435&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Remembrance%20Day%20Flag-raising%20discussions%20in%20Canada%20pose%20questions%20about%20residential%20schools%20and%20what%20we%20remember\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trevor Norris, Associate Professor of Educational Studies at Brock University, and Frank Deer, Associate Professor of Education at University of Manitoba had a piece recently published in The Conversation about how to honour veterans for Remembrance Day while also respecting the Indigenous children who died in residential schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,7,6],"tags":[98,5512,7430],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75065"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75075,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75065\/revisions\/75075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}