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JPIC National Day of Action: Open Hands to Reinvent Earth Date: October 24 Organizer: Canadian Religious Conference, a KAIROS member Join communities across Canada for the Canadian Religious Conference’s first JPIC National Day of Action, Open Hands to Reinvent Earth. This national initiative invites people to take local action for justice, peace and the integrity […]

Every September 30, orange shirts appear across the country. We wear them to honour Survivors of residential schools, to remember the children who never returned home and to recognize the families and communities who continue to live with the impacts of the residential school system. Orange Shirt Day and the National Day for Truth and […]

Newmarket’s Trinity United Church will mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation with a public display on its front lawn on Wednesday. Displays and speeches will examine the United Church of Canada’s role in residential schools and the broader effort to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian society. Come and hear about how the churches […]

What do you want to tell the future… #DearFuture Sarah Jenkins Vancouver, BC “My hope for the future is that we treat our oceans with the respect they deserve. We cannot survive without them. I envision a world where clean water is a human right, not a commodity.” David M. Winnipeg, MB Listen to David’s […]

Steering Committee Member Dick was born in 1950 in Ithaca, New York and grew up on a nearby dairy farm. In 1972 he immigrated to Canada as a Vietnam era war resister. He settled in Nova Scotia, married and raised two sons while working at various jobs in agriculture, construction and forestry before starting a […]

Steering Committee Member Rev. Paul Gehrs lives on Treaty One Territory in Winnipeg, MB. He is married to Melanie Whyte and they have two adult children. Paul serves as Assistant to the Bishop, Justice and Leadership for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC).

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Steering Committee Member Diwa Marcelino is a migrant rights activist and organizer with Migrante Manitoba – a non-profit organization that advocates for the rights and welfare of migrant workers. He is also a member of the United for Mining Justice, a network of United Church of Canada members and allies working for just extractive sector […]

Luke was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada but grew up on a 50 acre farm in a town called Uxbridge. Today, he works for Development and Peace – Caritas Canada, the international solidarity movement of the Catholic Church in Canada. Luke was first involved with the movement as a high school student at the age […]