Exploring Theme: "Individual Municipal Commitments"

Women Transforming Cities: September 30th is Orange Shirt Day, or the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. It’s a day to honour the children who never returned home, residential school survivors, their families, and communities. One of the ways we can honour survivors is to push for the completion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s...

In her career, Michelle Bryant-Gravelle has worked tirelessly to advocate for inclusion CBC News: A self-proclaimed envelope-pusher, Michelle Bryant-Gravelle says she is driven by her desire for change and representation.  Bryant-Gravelle says she has spent her entire career working to create inclusion in spaces where Indigenous people have typically been excluded — and hopes to continue doing so as...

Vancouver city council is days away from voting on an historic document involving the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations that aims to create a pathway to implement a long list of recommendations to address the city’s colonial past and recognize rights and title of Indigenous peoples. The document — the first of its kind for...

APTN National News: The Squamish Nation victory song rang out in Vancouver as chiefs, leaders from the community and representatives from city hall gathered to celebrate a report by a joint task force on how to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in B.C.’s largest city. The task force...