Friday, March 8, 2024, 7:30 EST

Rising to the Challenge of Reconciliation With Doug White

In recent years, Canada has arrived at an ever deepening and dynamic moment in its relationship with Indigenous Peoples. The Canadian public and imagination has been engaged in multiple national processes such as the Royal Commission, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), and the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry. One of the key TRC recommendations was that Canada should adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as the framework for reconciliation which Canada has done. Now the imperative and work of implementation is in front of us as a nation and all of these distinct yet interrelated pathways will require the focused attention, effort, action, determination, and even love, of all of us to bring about the world we dream about for future generations.

Doug will help us reflect on how, to truly reconcile, we will need to forge new spaces and patterns of community at the grassroots, striving to reflect the dynamics of peaceful co-existence and just relations.