We need to take this moment to address the systemic issues in our education system, in our justice system, in our economy, and how they disproportionately impacts BIPOC in our province. Now is the time to push for real change in our society. #BLM#BIPOC#onpoli#scarbTO
Indigenous Services Minister @MarcMillerVM answers a question in Mohawk, explaining he’s been studying each day. “Through that I’ve met a lot of people that are passionate about their language...I’m an outsider into those communities and I’m very privileged to experience that.”
Since Canada was formed, there have been two tiers of health care in the country — one for non-Indigenous people and one for First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples.” -@TanyaTalaga
Full kudos @NANComms@janephilpott commitment to first-tier health care
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"'[Body positivity is] not enough because even if we broaden our definition of beauty, it doesn’t fix the underlying problem, which is that beauty still has such a huge value and our society.'" https://t.co/hZZJZdztVE
Social media can be full of grace. It can also make me cry.
Never, ever underestimate the power of Story... or the human spirit. Thank you, @Odango_Bunny. I appreciate your courage and your strength.
#SpeakUp#BooksChangeLives
Cindy Blackstock gives us her take on a ruling by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal that says Ottawa must pay tens of thousands of dollars to every First Nations child who was placed in the on-reserve child welfare system. https://t.co/nZjXEQiapH #cdnpoli#hw
"Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss." - Black Elk
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