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?
Among the more rarely discussed Calls to Action are 93 and 94, relating to Newcomers to Canada. While there has been some movement to address these Calls, the citizenship education for new Canadians remains deeply colonial.
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.
Content Note: The following contains information related to colonial violence and Canada’s Indian Residential School system, which may be distressing for some readers. THE MATTER OF Indian Residential Schools (IRS) came to the forefront many times in the past year. More recently, on April 1st, 2022, several Indigenous delegations went to the Vatican to hear an apology …
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