Our newsletter Quaker Concern – Summer 2019 issue
The Summer 2019 edition of Quaker Concern, the 8 page print and digital newsletter of Canadian Friends Service Committee, is here. In this issue Keira Mann interviews 15-year-old Haana Edenshaw about her experience at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which she says left her feeling changed as a person. Matt Legge discusses Canadian Yearly … read more
Annual Report on Quaker Truth & Reconciliation Work
At our annual gathering in 2016, Canadian Quakers (CYM) approved a minute (https://quakerservice.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CYM-2016-Minute-on-Reconciliation.pdf) that listed six action points for Quaker Monthly Meetings and Worship Groups to take forward into the coming year. One of the action points asked local Quaker groups to report back to Canadian Friends Service Committee (CFSC) on their annual reconciliation work, … read more
Respect refugees in the upcoming election
Candidates in many recent elections worldwide have played on racism and xenophobia (a fear of foreigners). This rhetoric is deeply harmful as it begins to make racism and hatred of migrants seem increasingly normal, even acceptable. We are joining with many organizations in an open letter calling on all candidates to be respectful of migrants … read more
New resource on writing territory acknowledgments
Have you ever been to an event that began with an acknowledgment that it was taking place on the traditional territory of particular Indigenous peoples? Have you wondered what goes into such an acknowledgement or how to make one? CFSC has released a new two page handout to help with thinking through and making territory … read more
CFSC’s office in Friends House Toronto. We are located on the traditional territory of the Wendat, Petun, and most recently the Mississaugas of the Credit River. This land has been the site of
human activity for 15,000 years and is the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum, a
sacred treaty between the Haudenosaunee and the Anishinaabek.
