Observing National Truth and Reconciliation Day

In observance of Canada’s National Truth and Reconciliation Day, September 30, Knowledge Bureau will be closed, to allow staff and students to remember and honour Residential School Survivors, their families, and those who never returned home and reflect on their personal participation on the Journey to Reconciliation.     

Knowledge Bureau is a partner of Winnipeg’s Indigenous Accord, created to make a commitment to reconciliation and foster collaboration, understanding, and accountability between the City of Winnipeg, Accord partners, and First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. 

Our focus is on the Truth and Reconciliation Call to Action #92: Business and Reconciliation.

“We call upon the corporate sector in Canada to adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a reconciliation framework and to apply its principles, norms, and standards to corporate policy and core operational activities involving Indigenous peoples and their lands and resources. This would include, but not be limited to, the following:

1. Commit to meaningful consultation, building respectful relationships, and obtaining the free, prior, and informed consent of Indigenous peoples before proceeding with economic development projects.
2. Ensure that Aboriginal peoples have equitable access to jobs, training, and education opportunities in the corporate sector, and that Aboriginal communities gain long-term sustainable benefits from economic development projects.
3. Provide education for management and staff on the history of Aboriginal peoples, including the history and legacy of residential schools, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Treaties and Aboriginal rights, Indigenous law, and Aboriginal–Crown relations. This will require skills-based training in intercultural competency, conflict resolution, human rights, and anti-racism.”

Knowledge Bureau has been proud to Partner with TIPI Legacy HR+ in publishing a 10 chapter online training program, written by Indigenous authors, to help participants develop an action plan in their workplaces on how they can make a difference by learning about

1. Pre-contact

2. Contact

3. Legislation

4. Residential Schools

5. Child Welfare

6. Sixties Scoop

7. The Justice System

8. Missing and Murdered Women and Girls

9. Truth and Reconciliation

10. Reflection and Application

We mourn with those families who mourn, mindful of the difficult healing journey, and our role in society to better understand and support through awareness, empathy and education.