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Black History Month

February is Black History Month in Canada and across the world. The theme for 2025 is “Black Legacy and Leadership: Celebrating Canadian History and Uplifting Future Generations.” At a time when long-overdue equity initiatives are already coming under direct threat from various quarters, including within the post-secondary sector, it is essential to celebrate our diversity, to […]

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GEDC Statement on International Women’s Day

Wishing our Members a Happy International Women’s Day today! It is important on this day to recall that gender-related inequities remain of grave concern. This is true within post-secondary (including the direct attack on Gender Studies at the University of Waterloo last summer), within our province, our continent, and our world more globally. Indeed, the Canadian Women’s Foundation warns

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December 6; National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women

GEDC Statement on the National Day for Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women (White Ribbon Day)

Dear friends and colleagues,  December 6 is the National Day for Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women (also called White Ribbon Day).  This year, in the wake of recent violence against women and against Gender Studies at the University of Waterloo in June 2023, the remembrance of the massacre of 14 young women at the École

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ULFA statement on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day

September 30th is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and is also Orange Shirt Day. This day is both important and difficult, as a time for remembering Indigenous children and families harmed by Canada’s residential school system, for recognizing the continued effects of settler colonialism and intergenerational trauma, and for reacting by taking meaningful action. 

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