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Reflexión: Loque significa caminar en tierra robada; una reflexión sobre el ejercicio de mantas de KAIROS

By Connor Sarazin July 22, 2019UncategorizedNo Comments

Como hija de inmigrantes nicaragüenses, no soy ajena a las historias de dictaduras respaldadas por los Estados Unidos y tampoco sus masacres. Las historias contadas durante el ejercicio de mantas…

Spirited Reflection: What it means to walk on stolen land

By Connor Sarazin July 22, 2019UncategorizedNo Comments

The Guatemalan KAIROS Blanket Exercise (adapted from the Canadian version) was recently held in Toronto. Two others have commented on the impact of the exercise— one as a settler, one…

Spirited Reflection: Imagine

By Connor Sarazin June 20, 2019ArticlesNo Comments

At a recent KAIROS Blanket Exercise (KBE), the facilitator commented that he often wonders what Canada would look like today if, instead of having forced Indigenous communities to adapt to…

Human Rights Bill "Pass Bill C-262 and C-337""KAIROS Canada joins Indigenous nations, organizations, and other human rights defenders in an urgent call to Parliamentarians to pass two critical bills that have been stalled in the Senate."

Stalling on Bills C-262 and C-337 undermines Canada’s democratic process, jeopardizes reconciliation and fails to protect human rights

By Connor Sarazin June 19, 2019ArticlesNo Comments

This Open Letter was first published on kairoscanada.org on June 17. 17 June 2019 Open Letter to Parliamentarians A unanimous motion of the 338-member House of Commons said that two bills currently…

Advocates continue to push for Indigenous rights bill as deadline looms

By Connor Sarazin June 18, 2019ArticlesNo Comments

Blog re-posted from kairoscanada.org A bill which would harmonize Canadian law with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) would need to restart its life in…

Hyperbole and misrepresentation must not prevent Senate passing Bill C-262

By Connor Sarazin June 12, 2019ArticlesNo Comments

This article was first published on kairoscanada.org on June 11. We are hopeful that in a matter of days the Senate will vote to adopt a private member’s bill that…

Urge the Opposition Leader to stop senate filibustering of Bill C-262!

By Connor Sarazin June 7, 2019ArticlesNo Comments

Bill C-262 is in trouble. On Wednesday, June 5, Senator Don Plett refused a motion from Senator Lillian Dyck to allow the Senate Committee to proceed with its scheduled review…

National MMIWG Inquiry Concludes. Today we commit to mourn, to listen, to accept, and to act. We entreat all Canadians to read the report, to commemorate the lost... 'collage of missing and murdered women and girls'

KAIROS attends closing ceremony of the National Inquiry into MMIWG

By Connor Sarazin June 3, 2019UncategorizedNo Comments

As today we participate in the closing ceremony of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, our hearts are heavy. Heavy with mourning for those who…

The outsider insider perspective- how a KBE changed me

By Connor Sarazin March 29, 2019ArticlesNo Comments

I am a settler in Canada and having immigrated from India about a year ago, I felt a longing need not just to belong here, but also to be able…

Why a blanket exercise made me disappointed, uncomfortable and angry

By Connor Sarazin March 1, 2019ArticlesNo Comments

Shining a harsh light on the impacts of colonization On a cloudy, fall afternoon at NAIT Main Campus, a circle of chairs are arranged around five patterned blankets laid flat…