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The thesis of this article is that resourceful small and medium powers in today's states system, typically western and rich states, are spending more ...
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(What) truly impacts our community is day scholars," said Shane Gottfriedson, chief of Tk'emlups te Secwepemc First Nations of B.C., who introduced the motion in July. "Our families suffered from the same sort of abuse, if not worse, as day scholars as (did) regular scholars and we're not even considered for compensation for anything.
Dan Ish, chief adjudicator for the Independent Assessment Process, confirmed that "some legal action has been brought to include (day school scholars) and so forth, but I'm not included in that because I'm not the decision maker in that."
"In this particular settlement agreement, the agreement was limited to the residential schools as opposed to day scholars. That's what they've adjudicated on, that's the settlement that's being implemented here. Unless ...
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Canadians, a moderate people by repute, too often have immoderate views of what we can do in the world, fluctuating between pretension and denigration...
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Re Reconciliation Works, Community News, July/August
My Scottish ancestors were called by many different pejorative names including the gypsies of t...
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[Harry LaForme] said that the "incurable problem" however lay in the structure of the commission, in which the "course and its objectives are to be shaped ultimately through the authority and leadership of its chair.
Although LaForme's resignation may have come as a surprise, six weeks earlier a mediator met the chair and commissioners to "address issues around decision making," said [Claudette Dumont-Smith], who would offer no more details, stating that the mediator's proceedings are privileged. The mediator had only one meeting with the three-member commission and that was an introductory meeting on Sept. 3, which also included legal counsel for LaForme. The mediator held a second meeting with Dumont-Smith and [Jane Brewin Morley] at their request.
[Robert Joseph] puts the problems f...
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Introduction
Reconciliation has become a prominent socio-political theme in many liberal democracies around the world. Governments and dominant soci...
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IN PREPARATION for the third national Truth and Reconciliation event in Halifax from Oct. 26 to 29, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is hosting...
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The common understanding in the 16th century was there should be unity in the church," explains Janet Plenert, Winnipeg-based vice-president of the Mennonite World Conference. "They thought the political processes could only tolerate on religion or there would be war.
"We don't do anything, we haven't initiated anything, and they haven't initiated anything," says Rev. Harold Peters-Fransen of First Mennonite Church about connections with neighbouring Lutheran congregations in the city's West End.
"I think the recognition that God's mission in the world is bigger than only one denomination is extremely important," says Rev. Michael Kurtz. "We're recognizing that we could put our energies there rather than constantly putting our energies into things that divide."
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"Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, ...
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AS I CONTEMPLATE our family trip to Christian Island today for a picnic at the Christian Island Lighthouse, I think back over the last eight years and...