When: Saturday, April 9th, 2016 – 11:30 – 4:30 (IN FRENCH) Sunday, April 10th, 2016 – 11:30 – 4:30 (IN ENGLISH) Where: Student’s Society of McGill University Madeleine Parent Room 3600 McTavish Street This is your chance to become a...
Know your Rights: An Information Session with Migrant Workers For information: Connie Sorio (416) 459-2557 Email: csorio@kairoscanada.org
KAIROS Blanket Exercise Facilitator Training 9:30-12:00 noon The KAIROS Blanket Exercise is an interactive learning experience that teaches the Indigenous rights history we’re rarely taught. Come and experience the exercise through the lens of becoming a facilitator! Sharing Circle on...
"60 Million Refugees: A Global Challenge, The Response of the Jesuit Refugee Service;" an evening with Fr. Tom Smolich SJ. About the speaker: Fr. Tom Smolich is the International Director of the Jesuit Refugee Service - JRS, based in Rome....
Grade 7 classes.
Grade 7 classes
PRESENTATION & DISCUSSION Add your voice to the call for Reconciliation through Education. Guest Facilitator: Colinda Clyne (Curriculum Lead in Equity/First Nations, Metis, Inuit Education, Upper Grand District School Board) This event is sponsored by the Dufferin KAIROS Group as...
Join us at the University of Ottawa, on April 20th for “Canada’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security: How Far Have We Come, and Where are We Going?” This event brings together KAIROS and other members of the...
MCC Alberta is hosting a Blanket Exercise (BE) Facilitator Training event at Camp Valaqua. The BE is an interactive workshop teaching the (often) unknown history of Indigenous rights in Canada. Alfredo Barahona from KAIROS will lead this training on April...
Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Report challenges each of us to take action towards reconciliation, and that action must begin with education. The Blanket Exercise, created by Kairos Canada, leads participants through an overview of the history of Canadian colonization. It's...
Lysistrata and the Temple of Gaia re-imagines the classic Greek comedy by Aristophanes as a sex strike, not to stop a war, but to save a planet. Set in a future world where huge adaptations to massive climate changes have...
**More information to come as we prepare for this epic rally** The Indigenous Adoptee- Ottawa group is hosting a Solidarity Rally for Indigenous people affected by Canada’s Native Child Welfare system at Parliament Hill, unceded & unsurrended Algonquin Territory otherwise...
Following a short video on the Truth and Reconciliation's 94 Calls to Action, join in a Circles of Change sharing circle led by Indian Residential School survivors from Toronto's Council Fire Native Cultural Centre. 9:00am Registration & Refreshments 9:30 -...
During this workshop, we will build community, learn from one another, create a timeline of historic events, learn what the Manitoba government is proposing for curriculum changes, motivate our new MLAs to support legislature that follows the recommendations of the...
The Netagamiou CLC, with the support of Reverend Deb Kigar and Mr. Baudouin Lalo from Unamen Shipu, have invited KAIROS to bring the Blanket Exercise to the Lower North Shore of Quebec. This is being co-organized by the Community Learning...
The Harrington CLC, with the support of Reverend Deb Kigar and Mr. Baudouin Lalo from Unamen Shipu, have invited KAIROS to bring the Blanket Exercise to the Lower North Shore of Quebec. This is being co-organized by the Community Learning...
Miguel is the president of Serapaz in Mexico City, founded by Bishop Samuel Ruiz. Among his many commitments, he is currently involved in the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity, which has publicized the names and photos of thousands...
You are invited to join KAIROS for a day of learning and discernment on fossil fuel divestment. Share experiences from your denomination or religious community. Learn from churches that are divesting. Discern the role of divestment as a faithful response...
The Native Council of PEI is working with a network of organizations across the country to host a Mass Blanket Exercise, an interactive learning opportunity to share Canada's history from an Indigenous perspective. Partners include Abegweit First Nation, the Aboriginal...
Meet women’s rights advocate Chantal Bilulu from the Congolese human rights organization Héritiers de la Justice. With support from KAIROS and PSAC Social Justice Fund, Chantal coordinates a legal clinic for survivors of sexual violence in the city of Bukavu,...
DATE & TIME ARE CONFIRMED Mass KAIROS Blanket Exercise in Toronto, May 30, at 2pm. Hosted by Canadian Roots Exchange in partner with KAIROS Canada. Last year, during the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's (TRC) 94 Call to Actions in...
Last year, during the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's (TRC) 94 Call to Actions in Ottawa, A7G along with KAIROS Canada, local Blanket Exercise facilitators and youth leaders, brought together over 400 participants to Parliament Hill for a Mass KAIROS...
Because of activities already scheduled at the legislature, the Blanket Exercise has been move to Christ Lutheran Church. Please join us June 1 from 2:30-5:00PM at Christ Lutheran Church in Regina. Together we will do the Blanket Exercise, an interactive...
June 2nd marks the one-year anniversary of the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 94 Calls to Action. They are viewed as a way for Canadians to redress the legacy of residential schools and advance the process of Canadian...
In Spring of 2016 Grassy Narrows people will travel 1,700 km to Toronto to call on Premier Wynne to finally clean up the 9,000 kg of mercury that were dumped in our river in the 1960’s. Join us as we...
When: Thursday, June 2 from 5.30 p.m.to 7.30 p.m. Where: Friends House 60 Lowther Avenue (St. George Subway, Bedford Rd/Lowther Av) Please RSVP to fgolich@kairoscanada.org by May 30, 2016. Héritiers de la Justice promotes human rights and peace building in...
To mark one year since the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 94 Calls to Action, let's fill City Hall with over 500 people learning together! RISE is working with a network of organizations across the country to host...
How it works Two scripts are included: one for youth and adults, the other for children and younger teens. The exercise uses blankets to represent the lands of what is now called Canada, and the distinct cultures and nations which...
"This is a once in a generation opportunity. If we all stand together, we can push the government towards a bold climate strategy that’s justice-based, respects the UN Declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples, aligns with climate science, and...
