National Day for Truth and Reconciliation has sparked a movement that’s raised more than $45,000 for Indigenous organizations.Joshua Hensman, a city government worker, said he decided to donate a day’s worth of earnings because he felt “conflicted” about being paid for the national holiday on Sept.
30.“I was a relatively privileged white guy and I was going to be getting a paid day off on a day that was supposed to be recognizing and honouring Indigenous peoples, and that just didn’t seem right to me,” Hensman said. ‘They’d want us to remind everybody what happened,’ B.C.
residential school survivor says Shortly after he made the call to donate his own salary to Indigenous organizations, Hensman decided to encourage others to do the.