Orange Shirt Day

A call to move reconciliation from words to action

Closeup of Every Child Matters flags planted along Turtle Island WalkSylvia McAdam says the need for meaningful resources and funding to ensure that commitments to reconciliation are translated into tangible work rather than remaining words. (PHOTO BY MICHAEL WILKINS/University of Windsor)

By John-Paul Bonadonna

Reconciliation requires more than words. It calls for sustained action — in classrooms, institutions, communities and conversations around the dinner table.

That will be a central message when Indigenous scholar Sylvia McAdam of the University of Windsor’s Faculty of Law delivers the keynote address during the University’s Orange Shirt Day observances Sept. 30.