text: An eight-minute video featuring survivors recounting their stories of abuse, alienation and powerlessness at a Truth and Reconciliation Commission event in Edmonton brought sadness and grief to the otherwise forward-looking ceremonies as it played in the room. “I was hungry for all of that time for my own food and there was such a longing in my heart – such a loneliness for my people,” a survivor in the video said, at which point a woman in the room began to sob, sending a volunteer to her side with tissues and a glass of water.