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‘We need justice’: Indigenous leaders call for action in Quebec on Truth and Reconciliation Day | Globalnews.ca

Indigenous leaders are calling for more to be done in Quebec as the country marks its first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to honour lost children and survivors of residential schools.

A march will get underway at 1 p.m. in Montreal, which is being organized by the Native Women’s Shelter and the Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador.

Nakuset, the executive director of the shelter, explained the newly created statutory holiday isn’t a celebration but a day of mourning for what Indigenous children and their families were subjected to and endured in Canada.

“We need action. We need justice,” she said. “And we need a lot of really positive change and that’s what today is about.”

Source: ‘We need justice’: Indigenous leaders call for action in Quebec on Truth and Reconciliation Day | Globalnews.ca

Oil pipeline on Native lands ramps up as Canada honors its Indigenous people

  • Construction of the Line 3 pipeline by Canadian oil giant Enbridge is in its final stages of completion, and is set to carry tar sands crude from Alberta to Wisconsin via lands that Indigenous Anishinaabe people use for hunting and harvesting.
  • There are concerns the pipeline will contribute to further spills in the distinctive wetlands and wild rice fields of the region, as the company has a long track record of “hazardous liquid incidents,” including the largest inland oil spill in U.S. history, and failing to follow environmental laws during construction.
  • Some Indigenous rights and tribal leaders view Canada’s approval and the subsequent construction of Line 3 as part of the continuing legacy of colonialism and cultural erasure, which the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, on September 30, seeks to address.

Source: Oil pipeline on Native lands ramps up as Canada honors its Indigenous people

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation – LANDBACK Friends

Today, Sept 30, 2021, is the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in the country known as Canada. There is a lot of publicity now related to the institutions of forced assimilation. The remains of thousands of children being located by ground penetrating radar on the grounds of those institutions. Articles about the history of the residential schools, stories of those who attended, those who never returned. The suffering of those living today who are survivors of those schools. Those suffering today from the intergenerational trauma that has passed from generation to generation.

And the suffering continuing today as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police side with Coastal GasLink pipeline employees as they forced construction through Wet’suwet’en territory (video below)

Source: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation – LANDBACK Friends

Haitian Migrants: Thousands Are Being Allowed Into the US. But What Comes Next? – The New York Times

Mr. Alexis, his family and friends are part of a surge of Haitian migrants that peaked this month when 14,000 migrants waded across the Rio Grande into the tiny Texas town of Del Rio, where they camped out under a bridge in squalor.

The chaos, which led to bipartisan outrage in Washington, prompted the Biden administration to begin dispatching as many as 4,000 of the newly arrived Haitians on deportation flights to Haiti — a country most of the migrants had left years before for jobs in South America.

Thousands more — mainly families with young children, or vulnerable pregnant women — have been allowed to stay, often because they could, like Mr. Alexis, produce evidence of a friend or relative who could help provide a foothold.