reconciliation
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Signal Fire: Examining the philosophies of science
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On Nov. 5, the film Signal Fire by director Kelly Milner was shown at the Princess Twin in Uptown Waterloo. The film was released in tandem with the paper “Towards reconciliation: 10 Calls to Action to natural scientists working in Canada” by Carmen Wonga, Kate Ballegooyen, Lawrence Ignace, Mary Jane (Gùdia) Johnson and Heidi Swanson.…
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More needs to be done for true reconciliation
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On Sept. 30, I had the opportunity to join other community members at THE MUSEUM in Kitchener for their event “Honouring Truth & Reconcilliation through the Seven Grandfather Teachings.” Upon arriving at the event, I was surprised and happy to see the sheer number of individuals who had gathered together to celebrate the National Day…
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Editors Note: How I’m Coping During Bill C-18
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A short time after I became editor-in-chief of the paper you are currently reading, Bill C-18 (or the Online News Act) was passed in Canada. Oh joy, I thought to myself, contemplating what new issues this bill would cause me to face as I grappled with being new to this role in general. As we move…
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Reconciliation before celebration — why Canada Day shouldn’t be acknowledged in 2021
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215 children buried in unmarked, unreported graves at a former residential school in British Columbia were discovered on May 27. On June 30, 182 unmarked graves were found at another former Catholic-run residential site in Cranbrook BC. The largest single-site discovery of 751 children in Saskatchewan was reported on June 24. This brings the total…
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Editor’s note: Thank you for a good year
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Today is the last day of March, marking the last time that my team and I will publish our volume of The Cord. If this were a normal year, the rest of the Cordies and I would be sitting in our basement office at 205 Regina St. right about now to put together our last issue of the year. We’d be using…
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