April 15, 2007: Kevin Annett and the Truth Commission organize the Third Annual Aboriginal Holocaust Remembrance Day, which results in public rallies in seven cities across Canada in memory of the children who died in Indian residential schools.

April 16: These rallies compel a Member of Parliament, Gary Merasty, to raise the issue of the 50,000 dead and disappeared residential school children in the House of Commons.

April 20: As a result, for the first time, the Federal Minister of Indian Affairs declares that the Canadian government will investigate the deaths of children in residential schools.

April 24: Kevin's work and the issue of deaths in residential schools are reported on the front page of Canada's largest newspaper, The Globe and Mail ("Natives Died in Droves despite warnings to Ottawa"). This article supports Kevin's claim that thousands of children died in residential schools, and that the death rate stayed constantly high over decades.

Late April - May 31: Extensive media coverage of this issue and Kevin Annett appears in newspapers in Ottawa, Edmonton, Vancouver and other major cities. Kevin is interviewed on several radio stations, including CBC's national program As it Happens (May 28).

May 22-27: Kevin conducts a speaking tour across eastern Canada, including at major aboriginal reserves.  In response, a National "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" is officially launched by the Canadian government, utilizing much of Kevin's documentation and original research.

June 1: Kevin and indigenous elders in Winnipeg establish the International Human Rights Commission into Genocide in Canada (IHRTGC) as an independent, non-governmental inquiry into genocide in Indian residential schools.

June 20: Kevin's film on genocide in Canada, UNREPENTANT, premieres in Durban, South Africa, after winning awards at film festivals in New York and Los Angeles.

August 13: Working with Kevin, aboriginal elders in Mission, BC identify a mass grave of children's remains at the former Catholic residential school of St. Mary's.

September 6: UNREPENTANT is broadcast on Canadian television for the first time, on CRTV in Campbell River, BC.

September 20: UNREPENTANT is broadcast across Canada via Shaw Cable TV, along with an interview with Kevin.

October 1: Defensia Indigenoria, a network of Mayan native communities in northern Guatemala, endorses Kevin's IHRTGC and calls for international sanctions against Canada and the Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada for crimes against humanity.

October-November: Kevin plans a broader speaking and organizing tour across  North America, with stops in Edmonton, Winnipeg, Montreal, London, Windsor, Hamilton, Six Nations territory, Toronto, Ottawa and the USA. The theme of his tour is -
"Bring the Children Home and the Guilty to Trial: Winning Full Disclosure and Justice".





Read and Hear the truth of Genocide in Canada, past and present, at this website: www.hiddenfromhistory.org ...
... and on this radio program: "Hidden from History", every Monday from 1-2 pm (PST) on CFRO 102.7 FM (www.coopradio.org) (Vancouver)

"When the desire for Truth and Virtue becomes the only bias in our mind, only then can we know in ourselves what is right."
Peter Annett, Humanist and dissident, 1769 (jailed and persecuted by the Church of England for his questioning of the Bible and the church)