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Residential Schools: Truth and Healing (Length: 18:19) Contents in This Issue News in Review Resource Guide September 2010 Credits Resource Guide Writers: Sean Dolan, Peter Flaherty, Jim L’Abbé, Jennifer Watt Copy Editor and Desktop Publisher: Susan Rosenthal Resource Guide Graphics: Laraine Bone Production Assistant: Carolyn McCarthy Resource Guide Editor: Jill Colyer Supervising Manager: Karen Bower Host: Michael Serapio Senior Producer: Nigel Gibson Producer: Lou Kovacs Video Writers: Nigel Gibson Director: Douglas Syrota Graphic Artist: Mark W. Harvey Editor: Stanley Iwanski Visit us at our Web site at our Web site at http://newsinreview.cbclearning.ca, where you will find News in Review indexes and an electronic version of this resource guide. As a companion resource, we recommend that students and teachers access CBC News Online, a multimedia current news source that is found on the CBC’s home page at www.cbc.ca/news/. Close-captioning News in Review programs are close-captioned. Subscribers may wish to obtain decoders and “open” these captions for the hearing impaired, for English as a Second Language students, or for situations in which the additional on-screen print component will enhance learning. CBC Learning authorizes the reproduction of material contained in this resource guide for educational purposes. Please identify the source. News in Review is distributed by CBC Learning, P.O. Box 500, Station A, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5W 1E6 Tel: (416) 205-6384 • Fax: (416) 205-2376 • E-mail: [email protected] Copyright © 2010 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News in Review, September 2010 1. The Controversy Over the Census (Length: 13:04) 2. The G20 Summit: Talks and Teargas (Length: 15:12) 3. The Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico (Length: 15:44) 4. Residential Schools: Truth and Healing (Length: 18:19) Contents In This Issue . ......................................................................................... 4 THE CONTROVERSY OVER THE CENSUS ................................. 6 Introduction ..............................................................................................................6 Video Review ...........................................................................................................7 What is the census? ................................................................................................10 The Government’s Controversial Position .............................................................12 The Backlash ..........................................................................................................15 Activity: Class Vote ...............................................................................................18 THE G20 SUMMIT: TALKS AND TEARGAS ............................. 19 Introduction ............................................................................................................19 Video Review .........................................................................................................20 From the G8 to the G20 .........................................................................................23 Plagued by Controversy .........................................................................................24 A View from Inside the Fence ...............................................................................26 A View from Outside the Fence .............................................................................28 Activity: The Right to Protest ................................................................................30 THE OIL SPILL IN THE GULF OF MEXICO .............................. 32 Introduction ............................................................................................................32 Video Review .........................................................................................................33 Disaster Strikes ......................................................................................................35 The Impact .............................................................................................................38 Why did this happen? .............................................................................................41 Could it happen here? ............................................................................................43 Activity: Consider Possible Changes .....................................................................45 RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS: TRUTH AND HEALING ................... 46 Introduction ............................................................................................................46 Video Review .........................................................................................................47 Canada’s Residential School History .....................................................................49 The Truth and Reconciliation Commission ...........................................................52 How do we reconcile our shared past? ..................................................................55 Activity: Moving Forward .....................................................................................57 News in Review Index ............................................................................ 58 CBC News in Review • September 2010 • Page 3 In This Issue . THE CONTROVERSY OVER THE CENSUS (Length: 13:04 ) NiR Study In late July, Stephen Harper’s Conservative government announced a big change to Modules Using print and video Canada’s census. It said that filling out a longer version of the questionnaire that is material from archival used to collect data would no longer be mandatory. Many Canadians criticized the issues of News in decision, claiming it would damage the census. But the government refused to back Review, teachers and down. In this News in Review story we’ll look at the census and the controversy. students can create thematic modules NiR Study Modules for independent Census 2001: Canada’s Changing Face assignments, and small March 2003 group study. Related CBC Videos Other videos available from CBC Learning; see the back cover for contact details. THE G20 SUMMIT: TALKS AND TEARGAS (Length: 15:12 ) This summer Canada hosted a G20 Summit of world leaders in Toronto. But the meeting was overshadowed by what happened in the streets near the heavily guarded conference centre. Police and protesters clashed, and more than 1 000 people were arrested. In this News in Review story we’ll look at what was accomplished at the summit and at its bitter aftermath. NiR Study Modules Related CBC Videos The APEC Incident: Protecting Foreign Bloody Saturday: The Winnipeg General Visitors, December 1998 Strike Blueprint for the City of Justice The Trouble with Tolerance CBC News in Review • September 2010 • Page 4 THE OIL SPILL IN THE GULF OF MEXICO (Length: 15:44) In late April, an explosion rocked an oil-drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico. A pipe near the seabed broke, and millions of barrels of oil spilled into the water. It took almost three months to cap the leaking well, and many beaches and wildlife areas were polluted. In this News in Review story we’ll look at the damage and at the desperate efforts to contain it. We’ll also examine whether such an ecological catastrophe could happen here. NiR Study Modules Related CBC Videos The Future of the Oil Sands, April 2009 Arctic Meltdown The Oil Sands and the Environment Arctic Refuge: The Struggle Continues February 2008 Crude Awakening: Alberta’s Oil Patch Ghosts of Future’s Past One Ocean Powering the Future: Hydrogen, the New Oil When is Enough, Enough When Less is More RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS: TRUTH AND HEALING (Length: 18:19 ) For more than 100 years many native children were taken away from their families and forced to stay at residential schools. Two years ago the Canadian government apologized for the suffering and abuse many experienced. Now a Truth and Reconciliation Commission is hearing from some of those affected. In this News in Review story we’ll look at the work of the commission and what it hopes to accomplish. NiR Study Modules Related CBC Videos Canada’s Residential School Apology Circle of Healing September 2008 Healing Justice Saving the Native Children, February 2003 Residential Schools Stolen Children Violation of Trust Sections marked with this symbol contain content suitable for younger viewers. CBC News in Review • September 2010 • Page 5 THE CONTROVERSY OVER THE CENSUS Introduction During the summer of 2010 Prime the Conservatives were responding Focus Minister Stephen Harper found himself to widespread—and in their view— Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s in the middle of a full-blown political legitimate privacy concerns from decision to scrap crisis stemming from a somewhat Canadians who resented being coerced the mandatory unlikely and surprising source. At the into providing personal information to long-form census in end of June the Conservative government federal bureaucrats under threat of fines June 2010 touched announced that it had decided to abolish or even jail time. off a nationwide the mandatory long-form census—a As the controversy grew over the storm of protest. detailed questionnaire that one in five month of July, Munir Sheikh, the This story examines the arguments Canadian households is required to widely respected head of Statistics for and against complete every 10 years. This decision Canada—the public body responsible for the government’s was to come into effect in time for the administering the census—announced controversial move, next census, slated
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