To honour the children who attended and the survivors, in 2012, the Chief of the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation designed the Mt. Elgin Industrial School – Indian Residential School Monument…Now the Anishinabek Nation Regional Deputy Grand Council Chief for the Southwest Region, Joe Miskokomon explains the symbolism in the monument and relives the day of its unveiling.

“…the whole idea of Residential Schools was to take the Indianess away from the child until they lost their culture, lost their language, lost their heritage; and then, you end up with just concrete – or a white person. So, it’s losing yourself as you walk in.”

Source: The story of the Chippewas of the Thames Indian Residential School Monument

Vaccine equity holds the key to ending the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, most prior work on vaccine equity compares the vaccine uptake across neighborhoods with varying socio-demographic composition or assesses whether vaccine disparity across neighborhoods has diminished over time. They seldom examine the extent to which vaccination helps reduce inequalities in the prevalence of COVID-19 across neighborhoods. Using administrative data from the City of Toronto, we compare the vaccine trajectories of neighborhoods with low, moderate, and high COVID-19 rates. We also examine whether disparities in COVID-19 rates have narrowed or widened as vaccinations have become more available. By mid-June 2021, differences in vaccination rates by neighborhoods’ COVID-19 levels were small, but disparities in COVID-19 rates across neighborhoods persisted. Equality in vaccination rates is not a silver bullet to reducing inequalities in COVID-19 infections across neighborhoods with varying socio- demographic characteristics and likely variations in exposure to the COVID-19 virus.

RSVP for Zoom meeting details to: nestssc@uwo.ca

David Dylan Thomas, author of Design for Cognitive Bias, is compiling a Social Justice Metaphor Library as a resource “for folks who are looking for easy-to-grasp ways to explain concepts that can be difficult for friends, family, co-workers, bosses, clients, voters, etc. to understand given the narratives and defaults that most of us have grown up with which are largely colonialist, abelist, white supremacist, etc. but live under the guise of positive traits like pull yourself up by your bootstraps, we live in a meritocracy, just be more assertive, etc.”

Source: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AwftoBW6zbNv4qLi0NjuBNvtZyYg0f34xKVuOIO3DVk/edit#heading=h.1q7oa0bcpvr

Register your organization to participate in the London Heritage Council for the 10th annual Heritage Fair titled “Multiculturalism in London: 50 Years Later” on Saturday, February 19, 2022, from 9 am – 3 pm… The event will feature live performances, interactive activities, and film screenings, as well as an informative “Exploration Zone” featuring local organizations, all showcasing how London has embraced multiculturalism.

Registration deadline to host a booth space is Tuesday, November 30, 2021.

Register at: 2022 Heritage Fair – Call for Participation

this study suggested that those who espouse egalitarian views in one dimension (e.g., gender) do not necessarily espouse egalitarian views in another dimension (e.g., race).

Source: Are Those With Gender Egalitarian Views Also Anti-Racists? by Kate H. Choi