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Decolonizing Reading Club: A Grandmother Begins the Story
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Read LWF Communications Advisor Marlo Campbell’s reflection on Michelle Porter’s novel, which uses episodic storytelling to explore themes of family, trauma, resistance, endurance and resilience.
Decolonizing Reading Club: Rehearsals for Living
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Read Lake Winnipeg Indigenous Collective Program Lead Kianna Durston’s reflection on Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s analysis of current and historical collective efforts to build a better world.
Provincial mandate letters mark government’s commitment to protecting Lake Winnipeg
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With a mandate to "protect Lake Winnipeg and safeguard the health of all our waterways,” Manitoba’s new government must focus on phosphorus reduction.
Advocacy Success! Renewed federal funding for Lake Winnipeg
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Join us in advocating for targeted federal investment in evidence-based phosphorus reduction.
Decolonizing Reading Club: Five Little Indians
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Read Lake Winnipeg Indigenous Collective Communications and Engagement Coordinator Kakeka ThunderSky’s reflection on Michelle Good’s novel, which follows a group of friends dealing with the trauma they endured at a church-run residential school.
Decolonizing Reading Club: Life in the City of Dirty Water
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Read LWF Communications Advisor Marlo Campbell’s reflection on Clayton Thomas-Müller’s memoir, which documents a childhood marked by violence to a career spent in pursuit of environmental and social justice.
Decolonizing Reading Club: How to be an Antiracist
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Read LWF Programs Director Chelsea Lobson’s reflection on Ibram X. Kendi’s book, which interweaves personal stories with an analysis of how policies, ideas and behaviours can either normalize and sustain a racist status quo, or help dismantle it.
Decolonizing Reading Club: Son of a Trickster
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Read LWF Executive Director Alexis Kanu’s reflection on Eden Robinson’s novel, which uses metaphors and magic to confront stereotypes and explore themes of resilience, strength and love.
Decolonizing Reading Club: Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis and Inuit Issues in Canada
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Read LWF Education Program Coordinator Émilie Ferguson’s reflection on Chelsea Vowel’s book, which provides a historical overview of the concepts, policies and legislation which continue to have lasting impacts on the experiences of Indigenous peoples in Canada today.