{"id":53046,"date":"2020-06-30T11:49:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T15:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/?p=53046"},"modified":"2026-03-31T22:07:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:07:46","slug":"a-thoughtful-canada-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/a-thoughtful-canada-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A thoughtful Canada Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Canada-Day-Post-revised.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We have compiled information and resources to help inform your Canada Day celebrations and actions towards Reconciliation.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Land acknowledgement<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>If you want to know whose land we are on, check out this web-based app that uses GIS technology to assist users in identifying Indigenous Nations, territories, and Indigenous communities across Canada: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whose.land\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.whose.land\/en\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Community resources<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/trc.ca\/assets\/pdf\/Calls_to_Action_English2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Truth &amp; Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/4rsyouth.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4Rs Youth Movement<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/saskatchewan\/community\/personal-acts-reconciliation-1.5606051\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Personal acts of Reconciliation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/reconciliationcanada.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reconciliation Canada<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/86d28ccd43d4be0cfc11c71a1\/files\/102bf040-e221-4953-a9ef-9f0c5efc3458\/Ally_email.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indigenous Ally toolkit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heretohelp.bc.ca\/resources-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here to Help<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Petitions<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/prime-minister-trudeau-more-resources-for-covid-19-for-indigenous-communities-urgently-needed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Urgent resources for COVID-19 in remote Indigenous communities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/ontario-s-ministry-of-education-reinstate-project-to-update-provincial-curriculum-with-indigenous-content\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reinstate project to update Ontario curriculum with Indigenous content<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/justin-trudeau-make-national-aboriginal-day-a-statutory-holiday-in-canada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Make National Indigenous Peoples&#8217; Day a statutory holiday in Canada<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/truth-reconciliation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Learn more<\/strong><\/a><strong> about BGC Canada\u2019s work on Truth &amp; Reconciliation.<\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have compiled information and resources to help inform your Canada Day celebrations and actions towards Reconciliation. Land acknowledgement If you want to know whose land we are on, check out this web-based app that uses GIS technology to assist users in identifying Indigenous Nations, territories, and Indigenous communities across Canada: https:\/\/www.whose.land\/en\/ Community resources Truth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[499,261,500,501],"class_list":["post-53046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bgc-news","tag-canada-day","tag-national-youth-council","tag-resources","tag-truth-and-reconciliation"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bgccan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}