Perspectives

Calls to Action (C2A) Status: Dec. 2, 2022 Not Started Stalled In Progress Complete 15 21 47 11 16% 22.3% 50.0% 11.7% Status Legacy Calls to Action(1-42) + 50-52, 62-65 Reconciliation Calls to Action(43-94) Not Started 2, 6, 9, 26, 34, 42, 51, 52, 64 45, 46, 47, 55, 56, 89 Stalled 8, 10, 12,

On November 15, 2022 the Manitoba Government Speech from the Throne identified the following priorities and commitments: Helping Make Our Communities Safer Helping Families Make Ends Meet Strengthening Health Care and Reducing Surgical and Diagnostic Backlogs Helping Make Manitoba More Competitive Helping Protect Our environment, Climate and Parks Helping Build Stronger Communities Advancing Reconciliation Immediately

“What unfolded hearkens to such words as extermination and genocide. Canada, this is your legacy.”. Elizabeth A. Fenn, Pulitzer Prize historian from the Forward to “Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation and the Loss of Indigenous Life. James Daschuk. March 2, 2019 Three months laters on June 3, 2019 the Missing and Murdered Indigenous

Calls to Action Status: Oct. 16, 2022 Not Started Stalled In Progress Complete 15 21 47 11 16% 22.3% 50.0% 11.7% Status Legacy Calls to Action(1-42) + 50-52, 62-65 Reconciliation Calls to Action Not Started 2, 6, 9, 26, 34, 42, 51, 52, 64 45, 46, 47, 55, 56, 89 Stalled 8, 10, 12, 14,

Reconciliation has hit a roadblock. On Sept. 30, 2022, the second annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, 38% of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 94 Calls to Action (C2A) are either NOT STARTED (15) or STALLED (21). That’s a slight decrease from Sept. 15, 2019 when that number was 43%. And this result comes

Indigenous Watchdog (IW) aggregates a vast repository of curated data from multiple sources across Canada to track and report on what is happening with reconciliation – good and bad! What is working and what is not? The question for a lot of users is where to start and how to navigate the information to find

Call to Action Status as of August 20, 2022 Not Started Stalled In Progress Complete 12 21 50 11 12.8% 22.3% 53.2% 11.7% Status Legacy Calls to Action(1-42) + 50-52, 62-65 Reconciliation Calls to Action(43-94) Not Started 6, 9, 26, 34, 42, 51, 52, 64 45, 46, 47, 89 Stalled 8, 10, 12, 14, 17,

If an apology is focused on the needs of the perpetrator for forgiveness and not on what the victims need for closure and healing, is it really an apology? One could argue that the pope, in focusing his apology on seeking forgiveness for the horrific “sins” of his “children” (priests, nuns and other christians), is

On April 1, 2022, Pope Francis partially apologized to the delegation of First Nations, Métis and Inuit residential school survivors who travelled to Rome for meetings at the Vatican. The apology, however, simply said, “For the deplorable conduct of these members of the Catholic Church, I ask for God’s forgiveness and I want to say