When we finished our podcast Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s in 2022, I knew that I wasn’t done with the story. Even though we had spent a year investigating my dad’s experience at the St. Michael’s Indian Residential School and uncovered a staggering level of abuse, the story felt unfinished.

And now I know why. The archive we created of Survivor records from St. Michael’s should happen for every Indian Residential School. Especially because the most comprehensive archive that exists of Survivor testimony - 38,000 records - are set to be destroyed by order of the Supreme Court of Canada. More here: substack.com/@contactin…