The President of the Central Urban Metis Committee believes today’s (Mon) Rock Your Roots Walk for Reconciliation will be more poignant for many people because of the recent discovery of the remains of 215 children at a former Kamloops residential school.

Shirley Isbister says, “Without truth there will never be reconciliation, so we need everyone to, as they are walking, think about these things and how we can celebrate diversity in our communities and work towards inclusion.”

This year’s event is virtual because of the pandemic, but Isbister invites everyone to join in.

The goal of the walk is to honour First Nations, Metis and Inuit residential school survivors.

School students recently made birthday cards to give to the survivors.

Isbister expects this will be a powerful message for them, because residential schools didn’t celebrate any of the students’ birthdays.

The Rock Your Roots Walk is held each year in conjunction with National Indigenous People’s Day.

Those who would like to take part are asked to dress in clothing that signifies your culture if you would like, or wear the reconciliation colours of yellow, blue and red.

For information go here.