The Daily Ubuntu29 articles · page 2 of 3
Time given back
In the United States, a kidney function calculation adjusted for race delayed transplants. It was withdrawn, and then the lost time was given back.
ReadIdle no more
In 2012, four women from Saskatchewan launched Idle No More to defend water and treaties; round dances spread across the country.
ReadThe neighbourhoods drawn in red
In the 1930s, maps decided which neighbourhoods deserved credit. Their red lines still weigh on the land we live on.
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.
ReadArrested at a wedding, on Dante Street
In 1940, Italian Canadians were interned without charge. In 2021, the prime minister offered an official apology in the House of Commons, beginning with a Montreal story.
ReadMore than our worst moment
A memorial in Alabama names the victims of lynching. Telling the truth without reducing anyone to their worst act: a path toward shared humanity.
ReadNinety-four gestures to stitch a country back together
In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada turned thousands of testimonies into 94 calls to action addressed to everyone.
ReadNorthern Ireland: sharing power to share the future
After thirty years of violence, the 1998 Good Friday Agreement bet that yesterday's enemies could govern together.
ReadRepairing, for their children and for ours
In 1988, Canada recognized the injustice done to Japanese Canadians during the war and chose to repair, not just to regret.
ReadRwanda and South Africa: judging, telling the truth, living together again
From Rwanda to South Africa, societies chose to rebuild an "us" after the unthinkable.
ReadThe 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.
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