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    January 11, 2022
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    The Backbench
    #21 The So-Called Era Of Reconciliation
    Three generations of Indigenous panelists join us this week on what The Backbench thought was the biggest story of 2021: the unmarked graves on former residential school grounds. We break format to take stock of what has been promised and repromised, the diversity of demands from Indigenous communities, and what a new "interlocutor" position can do to help with healing.
    Tiffany Lam
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    Tristan Capacchione
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    Kieran Oudshoorn
    Managing Editor, Podcasts
    Three generations of Indigenous panelists join us this week on what The Backbench thought was the biggest story of 2021: the unmarked graves on former residential school grounds. We break format to take stock of what has been promised and repromised, the diversity of demands from Indigenous communities, and what a new “interlocutor” position can do to help with healing.
    Guests: Leena Minifie, Riley Yesno feat. Romeo Saganash
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