Exploring Stakeholder: "Government of Ontario"

I spoke for all of the First Nations children, who were stolen away from their lands, their families and communities, from everything they knew.  By Sol Mamakwa Contributor Toronto Star: May 28 was a historic day in Ontario. I finally spoke in my language, in Queen’s Park, which has been heard on this land for tens of thousands...

The NDP MP speaks Anishininiimowin in the Ontario Legislature. APTN News: New Democrat Sol Mamakwa spoke for 10 minutes in Anishininiimowin, or Oji-Cree in the Ontario legislature on Tuesday marking the first time anyone has spoken a language other than English or French. It was also the first time in history the Ontario legislature interpreted and transcribed any other language...

NDP MPP Sol Mamakwa to ask question in Anishininiimowin on Tuesday CBC News: The Canadian Press – Decades after being punished in a residential school for speaking his own language, Sol Mamakwa will hold the powerful to account at Ontario’s legislature in the very same language past governments tried to bury. On Tuesday, Mamakwa, the...

Kiiwetinoong MPP recalls being punished for speaking Anishinaabemowin in residential school CBC Indigenous: For the first time in the Ontario Legislature’s history, MPPs can now speak Indigenous languages at Queen’s Park. While members were previously allowed to speak one of Canada’s two official languages – English or French – an amendment passed Tuesday morning allows them...

Representative says students have been asking to learn Indigenous languages CBC Indigenous: Ottawa’s largest school board says it’s searching for Algonquin and Inuktitut language specialists to make learning the languages more accessible for students. Jody Kohoko, the principal of First Nations, Métis and Inuit education at the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB), said the board...