calls to action

This is a photo of the 2021 Vancouver Art Gallery memorial for Indigenous children whose lives were taken at residential schools
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Indigenous advocates call for more efficient truth and reconciliation

Sofia Chassomeris October 1, 2024

Content warning: mentions of residential schools, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, and colonialism. With the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on September 30, advocates are bringing attention to the “minimal to no progress” made regarding the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) 94 Calls to Action (CTAs). The CTAs were created for the Canadian government to acknowledge and educate on the history of the Canadian residential school system and implement policies to improve the lives of Indigenous Peoples in Canada. These policies aim to “ensure, through thorough and honest education, that this never happens again.”  The TRC was formed in…

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tax collector at church door
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Truth and reconciliation: Tax the Church!

Chloë Arneson June 21, 2022

In Canada, we’ve created a subsidy for an institution that carried out a genocide on our soil. A subsidy for an institution that, when more and more evidence of that genocide is uncovered, has to be coerced into making an…

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Indigenous statue pole in the AQ
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Reconciliation on campus: Land acknowledgments at the start of classes are still performative

Maya Beninteso May 17, 2022

Content warning: mentions of graphic violence towards Indigenous peoples As another semester dawns upon us, it means enduring another semester of empty words and abysmal attempts at reconciliation. The use of land acknowledgments, whether at the beginning or throughout the…

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Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action 43-49

EIC July 9, 2021

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Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action 18-42

EIC July 9, 2021

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Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action 1-17

EIC July 9, 2021

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SFU takes on calls to action towards reconciliation

EIC October 18, 2017

Simon Fraser University marked the start of a new journey towards reconciliation at a traditional witnessing ceremony led by members of the Coast Salish First Nations in Convocation Mall on Monday. The SFU Aboriginal Reconciliation Council handed over its final…

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