With acknowledgement to Tanya Talaga. The Indigenous Reconciliation Group was honoured to support Anishnabe author Tanya Talaga who was selected for the 2018 Massey Lectures. The CBC Massey Lectures is a partnership between CBC, House of Anasi Press and Massey College at the University of Toronto. This year’s lectures are also created in collaboration with the Toronto […]
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Recently in Canada and Scotland, there has been renewed debates about the presence of statues and plaques commemorating figures of history. The statue of Cornwallis in Halifax, Macdonald in Victoria, Duncan Campbell Scott’s memorial plaque in Ottawa, and the Henry Dundas statue in Edinburgh, Scotland. The debate is not whether the person being commemorated is
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With Minister of Health the Hon. Pat Angnakak, twelve new Certified ICC Facilitators take the stage! What does leadership look like? Strong self-awareness of culture, ability to manage difficult conversations to find common ground, and a vision for reconciliation. This is what a Certified ICC Facilitator brings to the adult education classroom.
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Over the past year, almost all employees of the Canadian Institute on Health Information have taken our Indigenous Cultural Competence course. CIHI continues to be a leader in organizational reconciliation: the first session was for senior executives to ‘walk the talk’, made opportunity for all employees to learn more about their opportunity and responsibility for
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We provided a keynote and workshop on change management to the 3rd Annual Comprehensive Community Planners Workshop hosted by Nishnabe Aski Development Fund in Thunder Bay. What a great time with community leaders, talking about the role of change leadership.
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We did a short piece on the webinar “Achieving Health Equity” led by the US Institute on Healthcare Improvement, along with panel member Ziva Mann. Reconciliation in Canada certainly has crossover with the health equity movement, but The_IRG looks for more. Yes, we need to close the gap. But what if our country was proud
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When the Truth and Reconciliation Commission started to communicate and share the truths of the Indian Residential Schools in Canada, many were faced with new information, and the challenge to integrate that information into their worldview of what is Canada. We tend to have a positive worldview of the good in Canada, and the impact
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November 2017 – The IRG was proud to be the platinum sponsor for the First Nations Health Managers Association 2017 national conference. After just eight months in existence, the IRG is giving back to community. The FNHMA provides leadership in First Nations health management activities by developing and promoting quality standards, practices, research, certification, networking
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One of a few Indigenous Cultural Competence sessions with the Public Health Agency of Canada. Destine Lord is sharing about Canada’s history and relationship with Indigenous peoples. A number of policy options in the past didn’t work out at all for Indigenous communities, even in public health. Today, the Public Health Agency is looking to
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We co-presented a workshop with CIHI at this conference held by the Association of Canadian Studies. And it turned out, measuring inclusion is difficult, even the evaluators say this! Measuring identity is even harder. Who gets to say that person is First Nations? Who gets to say what the indicators of being Métis really are?
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