The Daily UbuntuThread 05 / 07 · Stories
War and reconciliation.
To reconcile is not to forget. It is to refuse to let the wound have the last word.
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The Pines, thirty-six years later
In the summer of 1990, a pine forest in Kanesatake became the heart of a 78-day crisis. Since then, Mohawk and Quebecer neighbours have been slowly learning to talk to each other.
ReadA declaration for all peoples
Canada voted against the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, before endorsing it without qualification, then making it law.
ReadAn inquiry that looked not for culprits, but for a path
To respond to the suffering of former residents of a home for Black children, Nova Scotia tried a Canadian first: a restorative public inquiry, designed with them.
ReadJudging the person, not just the act
Since the Gladue and Ipeelee decisions, a judge must consider an Indigenous person's history before sentencing them. Yet federal prisons have never been so Indigenous.
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