Last week the Federal Government released the 2024-2025 budget, with new funding allocations for Indigenous communities. While these allocations are significant and there are even new policy approaches to be found in the budget, chronic shortfalls and the historically paternalistic Crown-Indigenous financial relationship remain.
Bill C-29 holds the potential to fulfill the TRC’s Call to Action to establish a National Council for Reconciliation. But will this Council have the tools necessary to hold the government — and Canadians — accountable?
Kelsi Balaban and Hayden King Interview the Callers of Action, Eva Jewell and Douglas Sinclair. who have produced the two most rigorous approaches to tracking progress on the TRC calls. Learn about their findings and process.
As the Pope continues the apology tour this week, Patty Krawec argues there are two narratives emerging about its significance: one that aims to preserve Canadian and Catholic “exceptionalism” and another that challenges it.
In this brief, Ushnish Sengupta analyzes the role of data governance in contributing to discussing the full truth about residential schools, calling on the Government of Canada and institutions to uphold their promises to implement the TRC’s Calls To Action as it relates to residential school records.
In the last Parliament, the Federal Government passed legislation to recognize September 30 as a statutory holiday to observe and learn. Yellowhead has curated here, a list of our own related resources for learning and education on this day and beyond.
Based in the Faculty of Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University.