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Thursday, September 30 is Orange Shirt Day and National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a day for education and reflection on Canada’s involvement in the former residential school system as well as the intergenerational impacts it has had on Indigenous communities. It is a day of recognition, remembrance and respect for survivors of residential schools.