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Indspiring Change @ Home Featuring Shelagh Rogers
Inspire is a charitable organization that provides funds for indigenous students to complete their studies. This event with Shelagh Rogers is free (but you have to register). The show is focused on reviewing the progress we have made (or not made) in the past 5 years...
Workshop: The Fragile Gift of Indigenous Language
Join this online Zoom session Wed. Feb. 3rd, 7-8:30 with D.J. Fife, as described on the poster below.
Petition to Stop Order of Ontario for Mike Harris
There are several reasons why we might object to granting Mike Harris the Order of Ontario. This opinion piece published in The Toronto Star, that outlines many more reasons for retracting the honour of the Order of Ontario from Harris. Here is a CBC...
Facilitating Q & A after a Presentation
Update End of 2020
In lieu of the live events, here is a list of very interesting online events from the Kawartha Truth and Reconciliation Support Group and WIND (the Indigenous Solidarity Working Group - Redeemer Church)Messiah/Complex until the 7th...
Dedication to Cileana Taylor
Curve Lake First Nation produced the accompanying video below as a Dedication to Cileana Taylor and to raise awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls(MMIWG). Elders and leaders appealed to the community to find ways together to end violence against...
Mi’kmaw Fishing Rights
There is a lot of confusion and misinformation around the situation in Nova Scotia with regard to Mi'kmaw fishing rights. Here are some facts from a page posted by APTN followed by a letter written by TRC Bobcaygeon. The 1999 Marshall Decision. In 1999, the Supreme...
Our MMIWG Committee Report
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Sub-group of TRC-Bobcaygeon – July 20, 2020 As we know, the federal government was mandated to come up with an Action Plan this past June, one year after the Report was tabled. Nothing has been done and of course,...
Orange Shirt Day
Orange Shirt Day Wear an Orange Shirt September 30th to recognize the experience of survivors of Indian residential schools in Canada. The quote below tells the origin of the orange shirt as a symbol. It comes from an article on the Indigenous Corporate Training...