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Reconciliation as an everyday practice
← Big Thinking Podcast homepage Next episode → Description | About the guest | Transcript | Follow us Description In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its First Report which documented the experiences of more than 6,000...
Re-imagining Black Futures
Big Thinking at Congress 2023 Discover Haiti’s role as a symbol of possibility and self-governance for people of African descent in the Americas in this Big Thinking lecture with The Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean. The only formerly enslaved society...
Reckonings and Re-imaginings: Confronting the legacy of colonialism and envisioning a more equitable future
By Eric J. Van Giessen, PhD Student in Sociology at York University Throughout history, the currents of societal change have always held the potential for destruction and rebirth. Examining the path to reconciliation, decolonization, and envisioning...
Abortion in Canada: how secure is our right?
← Big Thinking Podcast homepage Next episode → Description | About the guest | Transcript | Follow us Description With the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court last year and recent bans on abortion procedures south of the border, it...
Reflections on the practice of reconciliation
Guest blog by Crystal Fraser, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Classics, & Religion and The Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta.
Resources for Indigenous-engaged scholarship and what we learned from the Career Corner session
Congress 2021 blog edition “First of all, if we live and work in this place called Canada, all of us are, in some way, engaged in Indigenous scholarship because we are all situated on Indigenous lands and territories. So what is our responsibility?”...
The Discrimination against Black Co-ops
Congress 2021 blog edition The Canadian Association for Studies in Co-operation “Racial Justice and Cooperatives” open event webcast featured a powerful presentation, organised around visual stories, by Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Professor of Community...
Combating Unconscious Bias and Systemic Racism
Congress 2021 blog edition Although – hopefully – most of us do not consciously or intentionally work to perpetuate inequality in the world, odds are that most of us at least sometimes say or do things that preclude diversity and exclude the ‘other.’...
Pulling Back the Curtains: Unveiling Untold Stories in Canada’s History
Congress 2021 blog edition Hosted by the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), the “On the Other Side(s) of 150 Book Launch” open event celebrated the launch of the book, On the Other Side(s) of 150: Untold...