Archive for September 2018
Help foreign migrant workers stay in Canada. 1000 letters to be sent by November 2.
September 28, 2018
This October, join thousands of Canadians and migrant workers in calling on the Canadian government to take action! Only 2 minutes of your time to send a letter to your MP Canada’s Caregiver Pilot Program ends in November 2019. This…
Post filed in: Migrant Justice
At University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine, leaders take part in KAIROS Blanket Exercise that teaches Indigenous history and trauma
September 27, 2018
Photo by Liam Mitchell: Department chairs and senior leaders in the Faculty of Medicine participate in the KAIROS Blanket Exercise. Dr. Lisa Richardson, co-lead of Indigenous Medical Education in the MD Program, says that the KAIROS Blanket Exercise is…
Post filed in: Indigenous Rights
Spirited Reflection: Fruit Trees and Nuclear Weapons
September 22, 2018
September 26 is the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons – and in 2018, this is an exciting day. In recent years, the international focus on nuclear weapons has shifted away from the security concerns of nuclear-armed…
Post filed in: Spirited Reflections
Spirited Reflection: Orange Shirt Day
September 18, 2018
Orange Shirt Day is on Sunday, September 30. The day is inspired by Phyllis Jack Webstad’s experience. On her first day at residential school in 1973, Phyllis was stripped of her new orange shirt, a shirt that had brought her…
Post filed in: Indigenous Rights, Spirited Reflections
Urge Senators to support the UN Declaration Act
September 18, 2018
Join KAIROS in urging all Senators to vote in favour of Bill C-262, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. KAIROS is part of a Coalition of Faith Based Organizations* that is focused on ensuring that the…
Post filed in: Indigenous Rights, UNDRIP Blog Updates
Federal Court of Appeal overturns approvals for Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project
September 14, 2018
September 5, 2018 “I’m glad today the courts heard the teachings of our culture and our spirit…” Chief Rueben George, Tsleil-Waututh First Nation KAIROS Canada recognizes the importance of the August 30 Federal Court of Appeal decision to overturn…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice, Indigenous Rights
Spirited Reflection: Youth and children: raising hope and making change
September 12, 2018
World Council of Churches Week of Prayer for Peace in Israel Palestine Timing is everything, so they say, and the truth of this applied in the coincidence of reading a review of a book about the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian…
Post filed in: Middle East, Spirited Reflections
NEW VIDEO: Women of Courage in Colombia talk about peace
September 5, 2018
In conflict and post-conflict zones, such as Colombia, there is often a tendency to treat victims only as victims—instead of hearing what they have to say about what they expect. Here are voices of women from Colombia and elsewhere, including…
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage, Latin America
Trailblazer: T’Sou-ke First Nation Solar and Greenhouse Initiatives
September 4, 2018
“In order to achieve sustainability, it needed to embrace traditional values, including deep respect for Mother Earth.” – Chief Planes In an effort to build a stronger, more sustainable economy the T’Sou-ke First Nation is “setting the table for future…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice
