Indigenous Initiatives Office at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Faculty of Law, 78/84 Queen's Park M5S 2C5 Toronto, ON, Canada

WE DID IT!! The IIO and @utorontoilsa made a podcast! Episode 1 is on @ApplePodcasts @Spotify @pocketcasts & here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1733469 Get outside and get ready to learn more about the truth that is necessary for reconciliation. Miigwetch guests @SenSincmurr & @Docta_Lola

LAST CALL! The deadline to register for the Promise Auction Trivia Night is tomorrow at 5 pm ET. Help us raise funds for Indigenous organizations and have fun! More info here; https://www.law.utoronto.ca/promise-auction

We are excited to invite you to our Indigenous Law and Legal Ethics Teaching Week. All are welcome and the first 20 U of T Law Students to register for each teaching will receive a $25 meal delivery gift card! For full details on our speakers and to RSVP, visit our website: https://www.law.utoronto.ca//programs/indigenous-initiativ

At the end of Reading Week, the @UTLaw Staff and Faculty Team continue to lead the #ReconciliationResolution Challenge but the 1L Team are in hot pursuit and the 2L Team have doubled their numbers! It's not too late to take the challenge: https://www.law.utoronto.ca/reconciliation-resolution @UTLawSLS

Students, staff, faculty, alumni and friends of U of T Law are invited to a special Promise Auction Trivia night in support of Indigenous organizations. Learn more and sign up here: https://www.law.utoronto.ca/promise-auction

Calling all #Indigenous folks interested in Canadian law - the Ontario law schools have invited some of the best Indigenous lawyers in the province to share their wisdom, experience and career advice. If you think law school might be for you, please join us. More info and registration is here: https://law.uwo.ca//nails_aboriginal_recruitment_event.html

Still time to register to join the IIO and Human Rights Watch on Monday, January 18, as we discuss Canada's failure to respond to the climate crisis & the impact this has on First Nations (registration closes Sunday!) https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-climate-crisis-and-first-na

Our friend and @UTLaw Alum Esteban Vallejo Toledo is doing important work @UVicLaw! Join them next Thursday, Nov 19 for a round table discussion on "Statues, names, memories, and reconciliation: revisiting UVic’s Begbie Building" https://www.uvic.ca//invitation_-statues-names-memories-an

Last week we were honoured to hear from Angela D'Elia Decembrini and Professor Kent Roach on the settler violence against members of the Sipekne’katik First Nation in Mi'kma'ki - get caught up now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmS-D4CAjAs

Learn more here; https://www.law.utoronto.ca/reconciliation-resolution

Are you ready for the 2021 Reconciliation Resolution Challenge? Watch the video and join us!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjLYjotDJ_Q&t=11s

Here's a great opportunity for Indigenous students!! The Indigenous Technology Fellowship is an eight-month fellowship program that intends to expose highly motivated Indigenous undergraduate/graduate students to the Canadian technology ecosystem. The program's various "technology modules" (i.e. Product Development, Corporate Culture etc.) will be delivered to the participants bi-monthly by leading startup employees across Canada. More info, including how to apply, here: https://www.indigenoustechfellowship.com/

The Indigenous Law Students’ Association (ILSA) and the Indigenous Initiatives Office (IIO), invite you to join us this Thursday, October 22 at noon for an education and action-based event in support of the Mi’kmaq People of the area now known as Nova Scotia. More than two decades ago, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld and affirmed the Mi’kmaq Right to fish for the purpose of earning moderate livelihoods. Last month the Sipekne’katik First Nation opened a self-regulated lobs...ter fishery outside of the commercial fishing season regulated by the Canadian federal government. In the weeks since, settlers have destroyed property and committed violent attacks against members of the Sipekne’katik First Nation. On Thursday at noon Angela D’Elia Decembrini, lawyer at First Peoples Law Corporation and legal counsel for Sipekne’katik First Nation, will give an overview of the ongoing conflict. Professor Kent Roach will join us at 1 p.m. to discuss the role of policing in this ongoing conflict and the historic relationship between the RCMP and Indigenous communities across the country. Following the presentations, ILSA will provide attendees with resources to aid in mobilizing support for this community. We hope that you will stick around to email your relevant representatives with us (templates will be provided!) and find other ways to offer tangible support to the Mi’kmaq people. EVENTBRITE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED and the zoom link will be sent out on Thursday morning: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/all-eyes-on-mikmaki-tickets-126

So nice to see CBC news visiting with our friend Dave White!!