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Decolonizing #YXE critical practice: #MentalHealth Counselling, Anti-Oppressive #Education, & Storytelling for transformative, systemic #CdnPoli change. ✊🏾🌈🧡

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“Ask the question: are we working FOR communities, or WITH communities” youtu.be/9E1SLTvngEw

Lasting Conservation, Led by Indigenous Heritage | Adjany Costa | TED

Conservation champion and TED Fellow Adjany Costa is on a mission t...

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"I won’t apologize anymore, or douse my anger. Black artists are not here to perform for your comfort." A new Heartfire Story by Peace Akintade on #Racism & #MentalHealth in art spaces & communities -- see her tonight at @PAVEDArts in #YXE! heartfire.ca/story/the-price…

The price I’ve paid to be “Authentic”: A Black Artist's story

Family and culture make us who we are, in our defining moments. This is true of all of our stories, our origin myths, and true of us, the ones who tell them. I am an artist who uses their voice with...

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One human expires after a full lifetime of unearned power, privilege, dominance, and prolific colonization — *bam* — National Day, 11 days before T&R Day. The Heartfire Medicine decolonizing mental health clinic will be staying open on September 19th. Come rage with us. (2/2)
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Took 6 years of Struggle after the #TRC Call to Action (#80) to see a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to honour the tens of thousands of children who never returned home from #ResidentialSchool and all the rest who had everything but their life taken from them. (1/2)
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When society shifts from seeing housing as an investment to seeing it as a human right, is when we will see meaningful policy to address homelessness and the housing crisis.
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If your biggest concern with homelessness is that you have to walk past unhoused folks, you are part of the problem.
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Substance Use and Addiction are human reactions to pain and despair, much of which is rooted in unjust and oppressive systems, structures, and policies. We need systemic, equitable action on the #Overdose Crisis, and #HarmReduction to keep our people breathing. #OverdoseAware
"While the Pope is here to apologize for its abuses... We are here to address the root cause of the genocide that was carried out." The Haudeonsaunee Confederacy sent a delegation to Rome in 2016, 2018 & now to Ottawa to ask to revoke these Papal Bulls. The time has come.
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How bout ya’ll be a little softer with one another and a lot harder on the systems.
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As someone who has worked for years as a doctor caring for people who experience homelessness, I can say without a doubt that while medical care is really important, what people really need...is housing.
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I know you’re tired. We’re tired. We can’t give up. We can’t sleep. Anyone in #Cdnhealth and #Cdnpoli who is skeptical that this will ripple north, must have been sleeping for the past six years. Turtle Island is a political ecosystem. Complacency isn’t an option. (3/2)
Thomas’ concurring opinion said the court should “reconsider” (overturn) the rulings on Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. These protect the right to Contraception, Same-Sex Marriage, and even Same-Sex Relationships. They are just getting started. apnews.com/article/abortion-…
Many of us were holding out hope that some modicum of respect for life, decency, or sanity would prevail. Those hopes have now been dashed. But this is not just about abortion, autonomy, and reproductive rights. They are just getting started. (1/2) apnews.com/article/abortion-…
BREAKING: Toronto Police have released data showing Black people were 230% more likely to have a police officer point a firearm at them when they appeared to be unarmed than white people. I don't want to hear anyone say that systemic racism doesn't exist in policing EVER AGAIN.
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DYK that #JordansPrinciple is one of the top #TRC Calls to Action? May 10 we celebrate #BearWitnessDay to ensure FN children have full access to the public services and supports they need. I honour the life of Jordan River Anderson today with my own son. @SpiritBear
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Canada, Prov of BC, RCMP have received another urgent request from United Nations to stop violating Indigenous rights of Wet’suewet’en & Secwepmec re: CGL & TMX pipelines. These requests have been continually ignored. Canada violating international human rights laws – at Vancouver, British Columbia
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Cori Bush
@CoriBush4 May 2022
As a survivor, I am thinking about how Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas are credibly accused of having violated and harassed women and are now the ones about to deny us our right to abortion care. Abusers do not belong in public office. Period.
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Honouring all First Nations, Metis and Inuit women, girls and gender diverse persons and calling on ⁦@CanadianPM⁩ to implement the MMIWG Calls to Justice🧡❤️🧡
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The systemic, structural, and institutional change we work toward, begins with the expertise and wisdom of those we sit with. #MentalHealth #Next150 #BLM #LGBTQ #YXE #Saskatchewan
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Policy extends from what we care about. Systemic action on #MMIWG in #CdnPoli is life and death urgency for thousands of our community members. Of our children. Of our strongest and most vulnerable kin. Write to an MP. Share and RT calls to action. Put the pressure on.
Leah ProudLakota (she/her)
@LeahGazan25 Mar 2022
Today I asked the Liberal govt why three years since the release of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, they still haven't released a national action plan with timelines and targeted funding. Our lives are valuable. We are not disposable.
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