{"id":12713,"date":"2025-09-30T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yyj.ca\/?p=12713"},"modified":"2025-10-02T14:52:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T21:52:32","slug":"national-day-for-truth-and-reconciliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yyj.ca\/en\/national-day-for-truth-and-reconciliation\/","title":{"rendered":"National Day for Truth and Reconciliation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/yyj.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thumbnail_IMG_0813-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12714\" style=\"width:327px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yyj.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thumbnail_IMG_0813-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yyj.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thumbnail_IMG_0813-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yyj.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thumbnail_IMG_0813-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/yyj.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thumbnail_IMG_0813-2-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/yyj.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thumbnail_IMG_0813-2-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/yyj.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/thumbnail_IMG_0813-2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, we pause to honour Survivors of residential schools, their families, and their communities. We acknowledge their strength, dignity, and resilience, and we remember the children who never came home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Victoria Airport Authority operates on the homeland of the W\u0331S\u00c1NE\u0106&nbsp;People, whose relationship to this land continues to this day. We are committed to strengthening our relationships with the BO\u1e30E\u0106EN (Pauquachin), W\u0331JO\u023dE\u023dP (Tsartlip), S\u023eAUTW\u0331&nbsp;(Tsawout), and W\u0331S\u00cd,\u1e34EM (Tseycum) First Nations through meaningful partnerships and ongoing collaboration. These Nations have stewarded and maintained deep cultural, spiritual, and environmental connections to this land since time immemorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today &#8211; and every day \u2013 is a time of reflection, listening, and learning as we continue on the path toward reconciliation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are honoured to credit the late Charles W. Elliott, Coast Salish Master Carver, for the artwork in this image. 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