Today is Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

We have made progress in the last 10-15 years in recognizing the damage colonialism has wrought; we need to maintain the momentum because the road ahead remains long and fraught. But the destination is well worth the journey.

September 30, 2025 - 12:08 UTC

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I do think it’s worth celebrating the progress because sometimes this subject can feel overwhelming. Certainly, over my career the university landscape has been transformed in this regard, with every school trying, often somewhat awkwardly, to embrace indigenization and decolonization. That’s
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significant, because universities are drivers of social change and upward social mobility. If they can become welcoming spaces for Indigenous peoples and embrace indigenous knowledge as equally valuable to western science, social science etc. then that can only help in the process of reconciliation.
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