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10/06/2026

October is 2SLGBTQIA+ History Month in Canada.

Young people consistently tell us that feeling heard matters.

The experiences shared in Undercurrents remind us that creating inclusive schools is not only about policies and programs; it's also about listening when youth speak about what they need.

To learn more about the lived experiences of children and youth in Yukon-based schools, please follow the link to YCAO Undercurrents Review:https://www.ycao.ca/_files/ugd/a5713e_0f505f9f18a84843ae6c3e1dc3161065.pdf

10/06/2026

🗳️ Put kids first in this municipal election!
Local elections shape the communities where children, youth and families live, learn and grow.
Use First Call’s Election Toolkit to ask candidates the questions that matter. From child care and education to poverty, housing and safe, caring, inclusive communities.
👉 Read the toolkit.
👉 Ask candidates what they’ll do for children and families.
👉 Share their answers.
👉 Vote informed.
Make your vote count. Ask what they’ll do to put children and youth first.
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10/06/2026

Sisters in Spirit Day has passed, but our responsibility has not. Families continue to search for answers, survivors continue to advocate for change, and Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit people continue to deserve safety and justice.

We must carry the commitment of these past five days forward and ensure remembrance is followed by lasting action.

10/04/2026

How does the tragedy at Tumbler Ridge connect to the ongoing Murdered Missing Indigenous Women and Girls crisis? https://33danielle.substack.com/p/ending-violence?r=3u7ca&utm_medium=ios

10/04/2026

10/04/2026

Today, October 4, we recognize the National Day of Action for Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit and gender-diverse people (MMIWG2S+).

Across Canada, Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit and gender-diverse people continue to be disproportionately affected by violence. We honour and remember those who are missing or have been murdered, and acknowledge the profound and ongoing impacts on families, loved ones, survivors, and communities.

Today is also an opportunity for all of us to learn more about the MMIWG2S+ crisis and the Calls for Justice, and to reflect on the responsibilities we each have in addressing the conditions that allow this violence to continue.

There are many ways to learn and take action:

- Learn about the MMIWG2S+ crisis, the National Action Plan, the Calls for Justice, and the work underway across Canada. https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1590523702000/1757436656642

- Learn about the history and ongoing impacts of colonialism, racism, and gender-based violence on Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit and gender-diverse people.

- Support Indigenous-led work and organizations, while recognizing that addressing this crisis is a shared responsibility.

- Look for opportunities in your own community to listen, learn, speak up, and contribute to meaningful change.

Today, we remember those who have been lost and those who remain missing. We honour their families, survivors, and communities, and recognize that meaningful change requires ongoing action and accountability from all of us.

10/04/2026

Sisters in Spirit Day, observed every October 4, the day honours Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQIA+ people who have been murdered or gone missing, while standing with the families, Survivors, and communities who continue to seek answers, accountability, and justice.

The crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people did not emerge in isolation. It is connected to a longer history of colonial violence, including the Indian Residential School system, the forced separation of families, displacement from lands and communities, and policies that attempted to break Indigenous cultures, identities, and kinship systems.

The impacts of those systems continue today through racism, misogyny, homophobia, and other systemic barriers that leave Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit people disproportionately vulnerable to violence.

Remembering must be accompanied by action.

On Sisters in Spirit Day, we honour those who are missing, remember those whose lives were taken, stand with their loved ones, and renew the call for justice, safety, and meaningful change.

10/01/2026

UNDERSTANDING TODAY
CHILDREN ARE LEADING TOO

We often talk about children as future leaders.

But Indigenous children and youth are leading now.

They are learning languages their grandparents were punished for speaking.

Protecting land and water.

Making art.

Sharing stories.

Organizing.

Speaking up.

Teaching adults.

Asking harder questions.

Reclaiming culture.

Building community.

And imagining futures that do not accept the limits previous generations were handed.

Leadership does not always look like a microphone, a title, or a seat at a boardroom table.

Sometimes leadership is a young person learning one more word in their language.

Standing up against racism at school.

Helping a younger sibling.

Speaking honestly about mental wellness.

Joining ceremony.

Creating something beautiful.

Protecting the water.

Asking why things have to stay the way they are.

Understanding today means recognizing Indigenous children and youth as more than recipients of programs, services, protection, or policy.

They have knowledge.

Ideas.

Voices.

Rights.

Perspectives adults do not have.

Listening to children does not mean placing adult burdens on young shoulders.

It means making room for their agency.

Respecting what they notice.

Taking their questions seriously.

Supporting their gifts.

And remembering that decisions made about young people should not automatically be decisions made without them.

Indigenous children and youth have inherited difficult histories.

But they have also inherited humour.

Strength.

Language.

Culture.

Creativity.

Relationship.

Responsibility.

And extraordinary possibility.

They are not simply waiting to become someone.

They already are someone.

They are contributing now.

Leading now.

Teaching now.

Creating now.

Our responsibility is not to hand them a broken future and call them resilient enough to fix it.

Our responsibility is to listen.

To support.

To make room.

To remove barriers.

And sometimes, to follow when young people show us something we have failed to see.

Children are our future.

But children are leading too.