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Gathering at a scientific field station for a Water Ceremony led by the Women’s Council of Grand Council Treaty #3. (IISD-Experimental Lakes Area)

April 6, 2023

Weaving Indigenous and western ways of knowing can help Canada achieve its biodiversity goals

Lydia Johnson, Queen's University, Ontario and Diane Orihel, Queen's University, Ontario

Canada’s commitment to halt biodiversity loss can only be realized by weaving together Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge.

Chief commissioner Marion Buller and commissioners Brian Eyolfson, Qajaq Robinson and Michele Audette prepare the final report to give to the government at the closing ceremony for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

June 14, 2021

Two years after the MMIWG report, targeted work must move urgently ahead

Margaret Moss, University of British Columbia and Marique B. Moss

The MMIWG Inquiry two years later: What’s changed and what still needs to be done?

Health justice funds could be used to support Black and Indigenous health initiatives and provide mental and physical health services to deal with the impact of transgenerational trauma. (Shutterstock)

December 5, 2019

Reparations for slavery and genocide should be used to address health inequities

Roberta K. Timothy, University of Toronto

In the United States, presidential candidates are discussing reparations for the descendants of enslaved men and women.

Indigenous activists have drawn attention to threatened waterways, neglected Residential School cemeteries and other social issues by walking across Land. Here a group of settlers on an Indigenous Land acknowledgment pilgrimage. Laurence Brisson/The Concordian

October 30, 2019

Learning the Land: Walking the talk of Indigenous Land acknowledgements

Matthew Robert Anderson, Concordia University

University, religious and sports gatherings often begin with an Indigenous Land acknowledgement. But what do they mean? And how can settler groups begin to walk the talk?

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