Native Calgarian

A great conversation with Aziz about a petition he started that is specifically about seeing to it that RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki and Deputy Commissioner Curtis Zablocki are made to resign over their struggle with the definition of systemic racism. Sign the Petition Here

Chad Cowie is a PHD candidate in politics and Indigenous relations and I am honoured to call him a close friend

My husband joins me to talk about gaslighting on racism, Bill 1, and police violence.

I am joined by Josh and we would have met at Chestermere Pride. Next Friday is the first of a series called Fab Fridays that will be livestreamed on Facebook’s GSA Alta at 6pm.

His first guest will be James Demers to talk about history.

https://www.facebook.com/events/572721936956303

I am joined by 3 amazing women to talk about their experiences with the kidney run while  I bring up the structural racism within the AHS system knowing how many people have experienced variations of care within the AHS depending on their ethnicity.

Also, did you know Judy has books?  Ask your local bookstore for Judy Everson books!

The City of Calgary is moving forward on their promise to ban conversion therapy. I will see if I can have 5 min on their open meeting about it so I share my thoughts about this extremely important conversation.

Jaclyn Tompalski is a researcher at the John Howard Society as well as a research assistant at the University of Alberta and is currently enrolled in her Masters program at Carleton University. She was the editor on a paper called Societal Perceptions of Sexual Assault: Effects on the Judicial System and to read this you can click on this link https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/invoke/index.php/invoke/article/view/48972?fbclid=IwAR0KA0tWxZaeZqxfVPK9l-zUnS2XQZ-bAwXEVykGSPrMj2UUJ3YeZ_K8_Og

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