Paid day off to reflect on truth and reconciliation? There’s a way to donate those earnings
Douglas Sinclair, publisher of Indigenous Watchdog, said funds raised between now and the Oct. 10 deadline will go a long way for his organization, whose work he has partially subsidized himself. Indigenous Watchdog has tracked promises on a number of topics, including drinking water advisories, suicide prevention, housing, the Calls to Action and more.
Canada’s first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation was declared last year — answering a six-year-old call from the TRC — after a number of First Nations detected the suspected remains of hundreds of children near former residential school sites. Archie, a Secwepemc and Seme7 woman from Ts’qescen, gave a special shoutout Friday to the First Nations, Métis and Inuit people, nations, communities and organizations that are hosting settlers as they mark the day through ceremony, dance, song, and the sharing of food and stories.
“It’s at that level that things happen, things change,” he explained. “If they can’t do that directly, just being able to improve their understanding and knowledge of what the truth about the Indigenous reality in Canada is.”
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