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Truth and Reconciliation recognized in Amherstburg By Ron Giofu National Day of Truth and Reconciliation was Tuesday but observations of the occasion took place on the weekend in Amherstburg. Truth and Reconciliation events took place last Saturday, mainly in King’s Navy Yard Park and at the neighbouring Park House Museum. The gathering was held in partnership with the Ska:na Family Learning Centre. Drumming, vendors, storytelling, a screening of the film “When The Leaves Turn Yellow,” servings of corn soup and bannock, yoga and children’s activities. Partnering businesses included Bucket List Coffee Roastery, the River Bookshop, Hotel STRY, Shooters Roadhouse and Caffeine & Co. Theresa Sims, who was one of the Indigenous storytellers, said the aim is to work together “as one heart and one mind.” Sims stated when she was young,
Drumming was a part of the Truth and Reconciliation events held last Saturday in Navy Yard Park.
she was not allowed to express herself in the language she was born with, something that was finally changed in 1974. “We were not allowed our culture,
our language or our ceremonies,” said Sims. Sims added that thanks to the work of the Indigenous community but also allies, “we are thriving.”
Noting it is harvest time, Sims added “it is our responsibility to find out what we need, how to use it and how to replace it for the next seven generations.” “Creation can survive without everyone, we can’t survive without creation,” Sims stated. Mayor Michael Prue said the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation gathering was not a celebration or a holiday, but a day of reflection. What the Indigenous community endured, including residential schools, were something that has to be remembered and Prue stated it was a day to commit to doing better. Town council supports the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, he added, and pointed out the ongoing redevelopment of the former Duffy’s lands into the King’s Navy Yard Park extension. He said when it is completed, there will be a tribute to the Three Fires Confederacy so residents and visitors can understand “whose land we reside on.”
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Postal workers hit the picket lines By Ron Giofu Canada Post and its unionized employees are once again at an impasse with those represented by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) returning to the picket lines. Canada Post said it “welcomed changes” the federal government announced last Thursday. CUPW, on the other hand, was less enthused and went on strike. Workers at the Amherstburg post office started a picket line up in front of the building last Friday morning.
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The announcement by the federal government allows Canada Post to end door-to-door delivery to individual addresses or and possibly look at closing post offices in rural areas of the county. Dan Sutton, local CUPW spokesperson, said the union “is pretty outraged” by the government’s announcement. Sutton said they had not heard what was going to be in the announcement until it was made by Minister Joël Lightbound.
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