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Digging back into the #94CallstoAction and the TRC Report. Here's the Indigenous Watchdog entry for the first call, which they list as "stalled" due to a lack of "formal mechanism or coordinated plan in place" to monitor or assess neglect. www.indigenouswatchdog.org/cta/call-to-...
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Alt text: light brown background shapes of trees in white on the right and green on the left side. Small earth with trees in drawn shapes sticking out from the bottom right corner. White texts Article 2 Indigenous peoples and individuals are free and equal to all other peoples and individuals and have the right to be free from any kind of discrimination, in the exercise of their rights, in particular that based on their Indigenous origin or identity.
Alt text: light brown background shapes of trees in white on the right and green on the left side. Small earth with trees in drawn shapes sticking out from the bottom right corner. White texts Article 7 1. Indigenous individuals have the rights to life, physical and mental integrity, liberty and security of person. 2. Indigenous peoples have the collective right to live in freedom, peace and security as distinct peoples and shall not be subjected to any act of genocide or any other act of violence, including forcibly removing children of the group to another group.
Residential School Denialism has been on the rise again; we’ve shared why this hate speech is on the rise, who upholds it and what recommendations have been made.
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Alt text: Blue background with grey block covering bottom third of the page. Yellow and white text. The top banner text states Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action In order to redress the legacy of residential schools and advance the process of Canadian reconciliation, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission makes the following calls to action. Reconciliation Below the top section the calls are listed per page in yellow and white text that states Missing Children and Burial Information 71. We call upon all chief coroners and provincial vital statistics agencies that have not provided to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada their records on the deaths of Aboriginal children in the care of residential school authorities to make these documents available to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
Alt text: Blue background with grey block covering bottom third of the page. Yellow and white text. The top banner text states Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action In order to redress the legacy of residential schools and advance the process of Canadian reconciliation, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission makes the following calls to action. Reconciliation Below the top section the calls are listed per page in yellow and white text that states Missing Children and Burial Information 72. We call upon the federal government to allocate sufficient resources to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation to allow it to develop and maintain the National Residential School Student Death Register established by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
Residential School Denialism has been on the rise again; we’ve shared why this hate speech is on the rise, who upholds it and what recommendations have been made.
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Alt text: Light purple background with darker purple on the top three quarters a picture fades in the background and a quilted start overlays the middle representing artistic expressions submitted. Top text in white Calls for Justice. Bottom right corner Instagram address @reconciliation_action_group Calls for Justice for All Governments: Culture 2.6 WE CALL UPON ALL GOVERNMENTS TO EDUCATE THEIR CITIZENS ABOUT, AND TO CONFRONT AND ELIMINATE, RACISM, SEXISM, HOMOPHOBIA, AND TRANSPHOBIA. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND PROVINCIAL AND TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS, MUST DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT AN ANTI-RACISM AND ANTI-SEXISM NATIONAL ACTION PLAN TO END RACIST AND SEXUALIZED STEREOTYPES OF INDIGENOUS WOMEN, GIRLS, AND 2SLGBTQQIA PEOPLE. THE PLAN MUST TARGET THE GENERAL PUBLIC AS WELL AS PUBLIC SERVICES.
Alt text: Light purple background with darker purple on the top three quarters a picture fades in the background and a quilted start overlays the middle representing artistic expressions submitted. Top text in white Calls for Justice. Bottom right corner Instagram address @reconciliation_action_group Calls for Justice for All Governments: Culture 6.1 WE CALL UPON ALL MEDIA, NEWS CORPORATIONS AND OUTLETS, AND, IN PARTICULAR, GOVERNMENT FUNDED CORPORATIONS AND OUTLETS; MEDIA UNIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, AND GUILDS; ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS TEACHING JOURNALISM OR MEDIA COURSES; GOVERNMENTS THAT FUND SUCH CORPORATIONS, OUTLETS, AND ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS; AND JOURNALISTS, REPORTERS, BLOGGERS, FILM PRODUCERS, WRITERS, MUSICIANS, MUSIC PRODUCERS, AND, MORE GENERALLY, PEOPLE WORKING IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY TO TAKE DECOLONIZING APPROACHES TO THEIR WORK AND PUBLICATIONS IN ORDER TO EDUCATE ALL CANADIANS ABOUT INDIGENOUS WOMEN, GIRLS, AND 2SLGBTQQIA PEOPLE. MORE SPECIFICALLY, THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING:
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Residential School Denialism has been on the rise again; we’ve shared why this hate speech is on the rise, who upholds it and what recommendations have been made.
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Alt text: Black background with an orange square boarder like paint mark, white text Recognizing Indigenous rights and title but reserving the right to infringe does not constitute consent, no matter if the threshold is high. Below box A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper The Red Paper Final Report @Reconciliation_Action_Group
Alt text: Black background with an orange square boarder like paint mark, white text The stakes of land alienation are high for settler states, industry, and citizens, since they form the basis of the Canadian economy. For example: CANADA LEADS in mining extraction globally, producing over 60 minerals and metals, with total domestic exports valued at $81.4 billion per year. This amounts to over 20 percent of total national exports. THE FOREST SECTOR generated $24.6 billion to Canada’s GDP in a single year, $24.2 billion to Canada’s trade balance, and 186,838 jobs in 2017, not counting all the secondary industries to which it contributes. Below box A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper The Red Paper Final Report @Reconciliation_Action_Group
Alt text: Black background with an orange square boarder like paint mark, white text FOSSIL FUEL PRODUCTION is high, comprised by crude oil (41.4 percent), natural gas (36.5 percent), and coal (9.2 percent),29 where by far the largest supply of crude comes from the Alberta tarsands. PULP AND PAPER in 2010 pumped $9.8 billion in exports from newsprint and wood pulp into the Canadian economy. CANADA CONSISTENTLY ranks near the top of global newsprint and wood pulp production that derives from boreal forests. IT IS NOT ONLY the land that is being exploited. Natural resource sectors were responsible for around 84 percent of total water consumption in Canada in 2005.32 Below box A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper The Red Paper Final Report @Reconciliation_Action_Group
Alt text: Black background with an orange square boarder like paint mark, white text This state-industry complex that motivates land alienation is a major economic driver of the Canadian economy. It is the basis of settlement in the country and a central organizing force of capitalism. It is also in many cases the major destructive force of Indigenous economies. Below box A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper The Red Paper Final Report @Reconciliation_Action_Group
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Alt text: Black background with an orange square boarder like paint mark, white text The cost is not limited to reputation; it is emotional and psychological. It has also resulted in disrespectful physical presence at former IRS sites: Murray reported that at the former Kamloops IRS: “Denialists entered the site without permission. Some came in the middle of the night, carrying shovels; they said they wanted to ‘see for themselves’ if children are buried there.” Below box @Reconciliation_Action_Group Orange text below box Confronting residential school denialism in an ethical and shared Canadian responsibility. The Conversation September 23, 2025
Alt text: Black background with an orange square boarder like paint mark, white text At its heart, denialism is not about evidence. It is about power — who gets to tell the story of residential schooling and whose voices are considered trustworthy — and it causes harm along the way. Below box @Reconciliation_Action_Group Orange text below box Confronting residential school denialism in an ethical and shared Canadian responsibility. The Conversation September 23, 2025
Alt text: Black background with an orange square boarder like paint mark, white text Residential school denialism is not simply an alternate perspective. It is a form of harm that retraumatizes Survivors, undermines truth and perpetuates colonial ideas that jeopardize Canada’s ability to work with Indigenous Peoples to create a stronger future. Confronting denialism is an ethical and shared responsibility. Orange text below box Confronting residential school denialism in an ethical and shared Canadian responsibility. The Conversation September 23, 2025
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Alt text: Black background with an orange square boarder like paint mark light grey and white text Propaganda: The term used to for the intentional spreading of information in a biased and misleading way, in order to promote a political cause or point of view. Mind Control: A specific set of methods and techniques that influence how a person thinks, feels and acts. Colonial Propaganda falls under the umbrella of mind control that aims to disrupt the “authentic identity” of individuals and groups, supplanting them with colonial ones. Below orange box orange text Part 1: Propaganda, Mind Control, and Undue Influence in Colonial Canada By First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada Grey text @Reconciliation_Action_Group
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Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions report and 94 Calls to Action.
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City of Calgary Mayor and Councillors, It is with great disappointment that our first communication to the newly formed council of the City of Calgary is to speak to an act of reprehensible violent raids perpetrated by the Calgary Police Service upon the most vulnerable residents. There can be no confusion that this was an act of deliberate harm and the continued genocide of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples, who as you know disproportionately represent the population of homelessness in Calgary, as a direct result colonial violence. Targeting, arresting and dismantling desperate survival conditions of the most vulnerable people in the city will do nothing but perpetuate harm and cause further trauma. The loss of belongings, punitive fines and jail terms serve only to put the means of survival further from reach. Shelters and group facilities are not alternatives to housing and culturally appropriate wrap around services; they are places where people are forced to give up loved pets and belongings and are subjected to physical and emotional violence. Police sweeps are colonial tactics used to further displace vulnerable people and incarcerate Indigenous peoples to continue the displacement and assimilation tactics of land theft. They are not, as police Chief McLellan states “a collaborative and compassionate approach to addressing concerns about disorder and violent crime.” The measured and misleading language from the police Chief including statements such as “Arresting is connecting,” and “Arrests will be made when necessary, but always with dignity and care.” are intended to deliberately manipulate the public and camouflage the violence of raids and imprisonment each of the victims of Wednesday’s attacks will suffer from. Crime rhetoric weaponized during the recent municipal election is now being used to gain public sympathies for the acts of violence by the police. Many of the victims of these raids are Residential School survivors - the depravity of thi…
This city is situated on Treaty 7 Territory, a councillor or mayor has a duty to represent residents as good Treaty partners, honouring the true intent and spirit of Treaty 7, and the responsibility to protect from colonial institutions, the rights of Indigenous peoples to live in freedom, peace and security. We have a duty to ensure the care of survivors by acting on the fulfillment of all 94 Calls to Action and ending the continuing violence with the full implementation of the 231 Calls for Justice. Non-Indigenous people carry the responsibility for the governing structures of Canada, its provinces and municipalities and an obligation to end the colonial violence that continues today. Each one of us is responsible for dismantling the systems that harm children first.
For Immediate Release
Calgary Police Enforcement Blitz November 5, 2025
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Carney with the provinces, & the health ministers must renew the commitment fulfilling the #94CallsToAction. Already we see division between nations & people regarding Ring of Fire resource dev & pipelines. Alberta & Ontario want to throw away legislation that supports an equitable, livable country.
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Alt text: Black background with white square representing paper with tape holding the top right and bottom left corner. Text reads Resources and funding - SRO Officers As more schools bring police officers back to classrooms, parents remain divided Supporters say programs build bridges, critics suggest police presence leaves students feeling surveilled Jessica Wong · CBC News · Posted: Oct 05, 2025 Link in description
Alt text: Black background with white square representing paper with tape holding the top right and bottom left corner. Text reads Resources and funding - SRO Officers Calgary's School Resource Officer (SRO) program, launched in the mid 1970s, underwent a review from 2021 to 2023. Robinson believes little has improved since, adding that police also haven't addressed their role in violence against Indigenous people, including the apprehending and forcing of kids into residential schools. "Our children are still being watched over by police and that's not fulfilling the Calls to Action and reconciliation in any capacity," she said, referring to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's individual instructions meant to guide Canadian institutions. Michelle Robinson - CBC Oct 5, 2025
Alt text: Black background with white square representing paper with tape holding the top right and bottom left corner. Text reads Resources and funding - SRO Officers Rather than police officers, Vásquez Jiménez believes boosting funding for education (that would allow for smaller classes, more educators and mental health supports) and improved community resources (for tackling food insecurity, before and after school programming and youth employment) are better options to address the root causes of violence. "Healthy communities — including schools — have more supports and resources, not policing and carceral measures," she said. "Even the most sophisticated studies in the literature — with incredible statistical kinds of analysis — have found no link between school safety and the presence of the SRO program or officer," he said from Edmonton. Temitope Oriola - CBC Oct5, 2025
What role are the Calls to Action and Calls for Justice playing in strike action?
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A decade later, that promise is largely unfulfilled.
Tracking by the Yellowhead Institute shows only 13 of the 94 Calls to Action have been completed. At this rate, researchers calculate, it will take until 2081 to finish the work.
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Today is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in #Canada
Learn how you can participate in the #94CallstoAction to redress the harms of the Residential School System & advance reconciliation: london.ca/living-londo...
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Come visit us today on the 2nd floor of Contemporary Calgary 701 – 11 St SW
September 30, 2025, Pokaiks – The Children 2025
Walk starts at 11am at Peace Bridge, Gathering Event is at Contemporary Calgary from 12pm – 5pm.
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"He is our hero": Family of Jordan River Anderson honours his legacy #94CallstoAction www.indigenouswatchdog.org/update/he-is...
"The federal government has revised their operating procedures around Jordan’s Principle funding to ensure that other levels of government pay their share. In the meantime, Indigenous children are paying the price in denied services, delayed or denial to access to health etc." #94CallstoAction
"The jurisdictional issues between the federal and provincial/territory governments that Jordan’s Principle was designed to fix have returned." #94CallstoAction
No. 3 of the #94CallstoAction is a call to all levels of government to fully implement Jordan's Principle. Indigenous Watchdog lists this call as stalled (as of August 2025). www.indigenouswatchdog.org/cta/call-to-...
• Wearing #orangeshirts or ribbons.
• Attending #ceremonies, #marches, and cultural events hosted by Indigenous communities.
• Reading or sharing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s #94CallstoAction.
• Learning about local Indigenous histories, treaties, and residential school sites.
Sep 30 is Nation Day for Truth & Reconciliation; aka Orange Shirt Day. Find out what is going on in recognition of this important day in Calgary. www.calgaryeconomicdevelopment.com/newsroom/how... #TRC #PhyllisWebstad #Indigenous #OurHistory #TurtleIsland #UNDRIP #94CallsToAction #YYC
WALK WITH ME brings a message of Unity & Hope. Filmed in 2022 at #BeachburgPublicSchool, the video captures a project initiated by students who were learning about #TruthAndReconciliation. They created a mural using traced hands & feet, and posters reflecting the #94CallsToAction. tinyurl.com/WWM-AS
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Slide 2 Dark green background with evergreen tree shapes in lighter green to the right and bottom of text. Small clouds shapes to the top and left. Text reads; @Reconciliation_Action_Group UNDRIP The resolution was adopted by the General Assembly on September 13, 2007. Canada officially adopted the Act in 2016, and it became law on June 21, 2021. The purpose of this Act is to affirm the UN Declaration as an international human rights instrument that can help interpret and apply Canadian law. It also provides a framework to advance implementation of the UN Declaration at the federal level. Government of Canada - About the Act - Justice.gc.ca
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The last posted update on this call was of the “Indigenous Services Canada has launched working groups to co-develop reporting strategies” variety. #94CallstoAction
