Indigenous Rights
A season of connection, a season of change – Indigenous Peoples Month Reflection
June 5, 2024
Summer solstice quickly approaches. This is a time of great meaning for Indigenous Peoples. The day isn’t simply a day to mark the longest day of the year, the beginning of summer and the time for barbeques and beaches. Like…
Post filed in: Indigenous Rights, Spirited Reflections
KAIROS reviews Budget 2024
April 23, 2024
While the federal government offered some good news in Budget 2024, which it announced on April 16, it also presented disappointments for KAIROS’ program areas. We are told that Budget 2024 is an attempted balancing act of spending increases…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice, Gender Justice, Gender Justice/Women of Courage, Indigenous Rights, Migrant Justice
KAIROS’ Calls to Action 2024
January 31, 2024
We regard this time with increasing alarm. Canada and the world are grappling with the pandemic’s aftermath, horrific wars, the erosion of democracy and rise in global temperatures and its catastrophic impacts. Our global partners continue to report increases in…
Post filed in: Calls To Action, Corporate Accountability, Ecological Justice, Gender Justice, Indigenous Rights, Migrant Justice
In our own Words: Mapping the Sixties Scoop Diaspora with speaker Colleen Hele Cardinal
January 24, 2024
Thank you…Colleen for bringing alive the story of so many Indigenous children, and the complex inner woundedness they have carried. I learned a great deal.Mary-Ellen Francoeur, Sisters of Service Over 150 people gathered and another 170 registered to get the…
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KAIROS Canada calls on Manitoba to Search the Landfill for Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran
August 11, 2023
KAIROS Canada joins Indigenous peoples, the faith community, civil society and others in the call for the Manitoban government to ensure that the bodies of Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran return to their loved ones. Morgan and Marcedes were murdered…
Post filed in: Human Rights, Indigenous Rights
Groundbreaking videos showcase stories of Sixties Scoop survivors
June 22, 2023
The Sixties Scoop Network released 12 groundbreaking in-depth video interviews with Sixties Scoop survivors on National Indigenous Peoples Day (June 21, 2023). The videos are part of its In our own Words: Mapping the Sixties Scoop Diaspora project, funded by…
Post filed in: Indigenous Rights, Social Justice
Celebrate National Indigenous History Month
May 30, 2023
June is National Indigenous History Month, a time earmarked by the Canadian government to learn more about Indigenous history, cultures and perspectives. At KAIROS we encourage year long learning – including the impacts of colonization in Canada – in parallel…
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KAIROS Climate Action Week to foster decolonization
May 17, 2023
KAIROS Canada launches its first Climate Action Week, June 5-11, focusing on centering Indigenous ways of knowing (Toronto – Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit) – KAIROS will kick off the first of three 2023 KAIROS Climate Action Weeks,…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice, Indigenous Rights
A Prayer for MMIWG2S
May 2, 2023
Connor Sarazin A Prayer for MMIWG2S Mother Earth, Grandmother Moon, we pray to you. We pray that you hold our tears of sadness. We pray that you hold our hearts aching with grief. We pray that we will see our…
Post filed in: Gender Justice, Indigenous Rights
KAIROS unpacks Budget 2023
April 5, 2023
Budget 2023 was delivered at a time of high inflation and national debt – and a challenge from Canada’s largest trading partner to step up investment in clean energy. It was no surprise then that the budget, announced on March…
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Budget 2023: Urge support for women peacebuilders
February 9, 2023
Last year, the federal government took a step toward fulfilling a promise it made during the 2021 Throne Speech. That promise was to increase Canada’s international assistance budget each year, and invest in sustainable, equitable, and feminist development that benefits…
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage, Global South, Indigenous Rights
KAIROS Wish List 2023
February 1, 2023
KAIROS 2023 WISH LIST As we emerge from a year of mounting crises, we are encouraged by the growing calls to center the leadership of Indigenous peoples, women, and youth in decisions related to transitioning to a just and sustainable…
Post filed in: Calls To Action, Corporate Accountability, Ecological Justice, Gender Justice/Women of Courage, Indigenous Rights, Migrant Justice
