Reconciliation

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada – Calls to Action

19 Recommendations (from https://www.standcanada.org/truth-reconciliation-commission-report-summary/) Calls to Action Federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal governments must fully adopt and implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as the framework for reconciliation Federal government must develop a national action plan, strategies, and other concrete measures to achieve the goals of the United Nations Declaration …

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Reconciliation Long Overdue

I acknowledge the grief and trauma that Indigenous communities are experiencing as more children’s graves are “discovered” at the sites of closed Canadian Residential Schools. The elders in these communities and those participating in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada have been telling Canadians for decades about the horrors they experienced. Now finally, we …

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