Teachers in B.C. to wear orange, hold special ceremonies over discovery of children's remains

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The union representing teachers across British Columbia is calling on educators, their classes and schools to wear orange, hold ceremonies and fly flags at half mast from May 31 to June 4 as a form of reconciliation with Indigenous people.

The move follows the discovery of buried remains of more than 200 children at the site of a former residential school for Indigenous children in British Columbia’s southern Interior.

On Saturday representatives