Every Child Matters Rally and March held in Edmonton - Windspeaker.com

Every Child Matters Rally and March held in Edmonton Story and photos by Paula E. Kirman Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Windspeaker.com The grounds of the Alberta Legislature are usually a sea of red and white on July 1 with celebrations for Canada Day taking place. This year, however, those grounds were a sea of orange, with calls to cancel Canada Day in the wake of the location of the remains of many hundreds of children in unmarked graves at the sites of former residential schools across the country. About 1,000 people, most of them wearing orange shirts, took part in the Every C…