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A Day To Listen

A Day To Listen

On September 30, in recognition of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund (DWF) is proud to partner once again with major media outlets and radio stations in Canada for A DAY TO LISTEN.

This year’s theme is All My Relations. 

All My Relations is a term used by Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island to express that everything is interconnected. Humans, animals, insects, plants, and inanimate objects are all related. We are connected through ancestors, land, communities, air, water - everything. 

  • A Conversation with Michael Etherington
    by Orbyt Media on September 29, 2024 at 1:00 pm

    Host January Rogers talks with Michael Etherington about reconciliation, what it is, who is involved, and how he put the action in reconciliation through a song he developed with his uncle Vern Cheechoo called Bring the Children Home, in response to the discovery of the first 215 unmarked graves of residential school children who never made it home.

  • A Conversation with Dr. Verne Ross
    by Orbyt Media on September 29, 2024 at 1:00 pm

    Dr. Verne Ross shares his courageous journey through the educational systems and his social work journey with host January Rogers. He also talks about the these he developed titled The Voices and Stories of Two Spirit People with the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

  • A Conversation with Amber-Sekowan Daniels
    by Orbyt Media on September 29, 2024 at 1:00 pm

    Host Kim Wheeler sits down with Amber-Sekowan Daniels, the creator and showrunner of Crave TV’s new hit comedy Don’t Even. Amber discusses the importance of Indigenous narrative sovereignty and why telling Indigenous stories from an Indigenous perspective matters and why we can have more than one Indigenous comedy series.

  • A Conversation with Miles Richardson
    by Orbyt Media on September 28, 2024 at 1:00 pm

    Haida Miles Richardson takes host Kim Wheeler on a journey to the edge of the world – Haida Gwaii. Miles shares how “when the tide goes out, the table it set,” how the Haida maintained their strong cultural ties to the land, and have fought the federal and provincial governments for autonomy over Haida Gwaii.

  • A Conversation with Madeleine Alakkariallak
    by Orbyt Media on September 28, 2024 at 1:00 pm

    Host Julian Taylor speaks with Inuk broadcaster Madeleine Alakkariallak about her grandparents' forced relocation from the high Arctic lands to a land of broken promises in the middle of a blizzard where they had to eat frozen food from a garbage dump. And how later in life, Madeleine would translate English news to Inuktitut for her grandmother which lead to a successful career as a news anchor for both CBC and APTN.

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