WINNIPEG: Canadian Mining – Indigenous Rights in Guatemala
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Tipi located in Founders Square 10:00 am: Opening Remarks Dominic Giroux, President of Laurentian University 10:10 am: Hand Drumming songs including: 1. Honour residential school survivors 2. Formal close of TRC 10:20 am: Walk to CAIRN located in Parking lot...
RECONCILIATION WALK PLANNED FOR NELSON What does it mean to be reconciled? How can the wounds suffered in Canada’s residential schools be healed? Aboriginal people today still don’t have access to clean water, healthy food or decent housing. What is...
May 29-June 3, 2015 Join KAIROS in Ottawa and across Canada to hear the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report, May 29-June 3, and to take action towards a new relationship. Intergenerational. Indigenous and non-Indigenous. Together. The event will address...
The Diocese of Kamloops will be holding a simple heart garden ceremony in front of the Sister’s Convent on May 30th at 1:00 pm. SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL 255 Nicola Street Kamloops BC V2C 2P3
The Bi-Giwen Indigenous Adoptee Planning Committee is honoured and proud to present an evening of entertainment with a very special guest Juno Award winning musician and nominee, Grand Chief Of Muskegowuk Council, Lawrence Martin - Wapistan http://www.wapistan.ca/bio/. With performances by:...
Embrace the past, Witness progress, Celebrate a new way forward. With the closing of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, the ecumenical community of Vancouver and members of the public will gather in a community street fair and ecumenical...
An invitation from the Primate and National Indigenous Anglican Bishop Mark MacDonald Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) which has addressed the sad legacy of the Indian Residential Schools will hold its final event, the closing ceremonies of its six-year...
First United Church at Fort Saskatchewan Children's group, Our Godly Play, will be leading a procession at the end of service on May 31. They range in age from 3 to 11 years old. First United Church 10409 100 Avenue...
The children at St. John’s have created a heart to be planted in the Heart Garden in Ottawa. The children will also be planting a heart garden in our church’s Memorial Reflection Garden. The hearts will be made of garden...
The Walk for Reconciliation is designed to transform and renew the very essence of relationships among Aboriginal peoples and all Canadians. It sounds so simple, but just the act of gathering and walking and sharing our stories can join us...
There are many things that can be done across Canada to demonstrate a nationwide commitment to reconciliation. The Parkdale United Church at 2919 8 Avenue Northwest in Calgary, will be planting a Heart Garden at 11AM on Sunday May 31,...
St. Andrew's United Church, North Bay Worship Service at 1:30PM and Recoonciliation Walk at 2:15PM.
At 2 PM gather at Council Fire Native Cultural Centre at 439 Dundas Street E in Toronto. At 2:30PM travel west on Dundas, north to University and end at Queen’s Park. For more information visit their facebbok page at: https://www.facebook.com/events/376437345889687/
Assembly of Seven Generations (A7G) has been inspired by the Blanket Exercise, created by KAIROS, to hold a mass scaled exercise on Parliament Hill to help educate and reconcile the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. As the closing of...
We pause to pray as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Report is released on June 2, 2015: For the Commissioners, staff and those who have written the report For those whose experience and testimony shaped it For those...
Creating a New Way Forward, Release of The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Findings & Recommendations Seating is limited. Register now at: vanpanel.eventbrite.ca LIVE BROADCAST & PANEL DISCUSSION Tuesday, June 2, 2015 | SFU Woodwards, Vancouver, BC Vancouverites are...
‘‘When a woman is no longer silent, she is no longer alone in her struggle.’’ KAIROS invites you to meet Chantal Bilulu, Coordinator, Héritiers de la Justice, Democratic Republic of Congo When: Thursday, June 4 @ 7 p.m. Where: Trinity...
We are creating a healing hearts garden which will be dedicated as part of our annual spring Sunday School service on June 7th which will use Healing Hearts and Planting Dreams as it's theme, as it shares it's learnings with...
After Sunday Service, guest speaker Rev. Maggie McCleod from General Council, will discuss the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and what we can do to achieve reconciliation. All are welcome. For more information, contact Ruth Webster,...
KAIROS, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, and Project of Heart are inviting children and youth across the country to create Heart Gardens to remember and honour former students of Indian Residential Schools...
The Canadian Sanctuary Network, Jewish Refugee Action Network, and Kairos Canada invite you to attend. For more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/1580210418910410/ A conversation with Hanns Thomae, former director of Refugee Outreach for the Evangelical Church in Berlin and Brandenburg and member oft...
This webinar is presented by the Living Into Right Relations Network, in partnership with EDGE. Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) is mentioned several times in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. What does it mean? How...
Chemical Valley is the climate and pollution crisis of Southern Ontario. It is where nearly 1 million barrels of tar sands are processed each day. It is where fracked gas is processed. It is the place of all of the environmental crises of our times. It is a place of environmental racism: the Valley exists on stolen land, and its people are being slowly killed by pollution. Join us in our fight against environmental racism, climate chaos, and extreme pollution.
PRESENTERS include: - ALMA BRROKS, Maliseet Nation, Grandmother, Wabanaki Confederacy - GLORIA CHICAIZA, Acción Ecológica (Ecuador) - PIYA MACLIING MALAYAO, Igorot tribe, KATRIBU, national alliance of Indigenous peoples organizations and Innabuyog Indigenous Women’s Collective (Philippines) - ELANA NIGHTINGALE and MEEKA...
An opportunity to work toward reconciliation through education. The Blanket Exercise is a teaching tool developed by KAIROS to break down misconceptions about our shared history as Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada. The training is in two parts: PART...
Keynote: Bob Watts, Previous Interim Executive Director of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission Storytelling by Waubgeshig Rice, author and journalist from Wasauksing First Nation Presentations by: * Tony Belcourt, former President of the Métis Nation of Ontario * Ashley Wright,...
Would you like to join in the journey of healing and reconciliation? Perhaps the best place to 'reset the relationship' is simply gathering for a meal together with Indigenous neighbours. The national board of KAIROS is partnering with the Katarokwi...
Watch all speaker presentations online Over the past two years KAIROS, Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives, has investigated the ecological and Indigenous rights issues raised by hydraulic fracturing (or fracking), the practice of injecting water, sand and chemicals deep underground at...
The Aboriginal Issues Working Group invites you to join Michael Cheena (Cree), Murray Crowe (Oji-Cree), and Kim McDougall (Oneida/Chippewa). Their individual experiences at residential schools and their life journeys offer different perspectives from which to understand the calls to action...