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June 20, 2021

Sarah Twomey: Educators play key role in reconciliation

Catholic education needs to nurture the importance of Indigenous ways of knowing in its institutions.

I am a fifth-generation Irish descendent from Southern Ontario, and a third-generation teacher.

Published in Guest Columns
February 27, 2020

Toronto protest sends message of solidarity

Solidarity banner leads thousands through downtown Toronto on Feb. 22 in a show of support for the Indigenous people protesting a B.C. gas pipeline.

Thousands of people who marched through downtown Toronto to Nathan Phillips Square Feb. 22 were not just protesting — they were making a spiritual response to Canada’s history of colonialism, said participant Liz Stone.

Published in Canada
February 27, 2020

Editorial: Fulfil the promise

Solidarity banner leads thousands through downtown Toronto on Feb. 22 in a show of support for the Indigenous people protesting a B.C. gas pipeline.

The headlines ask if reconciliation is dead. The answer is no, but the latest crisis shows that the national aspiration of a new relationship with Canada’s Indigenous peoples remains in failing health and in need of acute care.

Published in Editorial
February 26, 2020

‘Fundamental change’ needed

A supporter of the Wet’suwet’en Nation’s hereditary chiefs poses in Edmonton Feb. 19 at a railway blockade as part of protests against British Columbia’s Coastal GasLink pipeline.

OTTAWA -- Some Catholic organizations fear efforts of reconciliation with Canada’s First Nations are at risk in the wake of protests and blockades over a B.C. pipeline project.

Published in Canada
March 21, 2017

Catholic leaders call for protection of indigenous land rights in Amazon

An area deforested by illegal gold mining is seen in a zone known as Mega 14, in the southern Amazon region of Madre de Dios, Peru. Catholic leaders told the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that indigenous land rights need to be protected from oil and mine operations.

WASHINGTON – Catholic leaders are calling for governments to protect the territorial rights of indigenous people suffering eviction from their lands and pollution of their water because of mining and oil operations in the Amazon basin.

Published in International