Canada Day feels different this year

What MPPs are up to

Good Thursday morning. This is Queen’s Park Observer — a special holiday edition.

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This Canada Day is tinged with the dark discovery of the remains of hundreds of Indigenous children at residential schools, leading many to rethink their celebrations.

The question Queen’s Park Observer asked this week: what does Canada Day mean to you and how are you spending the holiday this year? Here’s what people had to say:

— Ontario Regional Chief GLEN (GWIINGOS) HARE: “Canada Day is not a day of celebration. [I] will be wearing orange to recognize and honour thousands of Indigenous children forcibly taken to residential school and to honour the resiliency of residential school survivors in Canada. We encourage all Canadians to join us on July 1st in reflecting on the country’s past and acknowledging that Canada must do better. 

There is strength in unity and understanding. Together, let’s wear orange and honour the children who were found in British Columbia and Saskatchewan and t…