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KAIROS and Otesha Youth Bike Tour Builds Bridges of Understanding

By Jennifer Dany Aube August 8, 2013ArticlesNo Comments

Originally published on Aug. 8, 2013 /CNW/ The KAIROS and Otesha Nation to Nation Bike Tour is on a roll through southeastern Ontario building bridges of understanding and respect between communities…

KAIROS at the Quebec National Event of the TRC

By Jennifer Dany Aube June 5, 2013Articles

KAIROS was honoured to be part of the Quebec national event of the Truth and Reconciliation Commisison in Montreal this April, and to welcome our Filipina and Indigenous partner Vernie…

KAIROS looks at shared, troubled history

By Jennifer Dany Aube May 14, 2012ArticlesNo Comments

Originally published in The Intelligencer on May 14, 2012, by Ken Palmer. Submitted photo Participants in the recent KAIROS-led session to better understand the plight of aboriginal people in North…

Blanket exercise plums the depth of injustice to aboriginals

By Jennifer Dany Aube April 7, 2011ArticlesNo Comments

This historical narrative often eludes well-meaning but sometimes uninformed “white” Christians today. Originally published in Canadian Mennonite North Battleford, Sask. on April 7, 2011 by Dick Benner. Hilda Epp, holds…

Indigenous people’s viewpoint expressed in blanket exercise

By Jennifer Dany Aube October 21, 2010ArticlesNo Comments

Originally published in the Burlington Post on October 21, 2010 by Nikki Wesley. A BLANKET STATEMENT: Last weekend’s blanket exercise at Tansley United Church consisted of blankets being arranged on…

Reflections on the Blanket Train

By Connor Sarazin September 1, 2010ArticlesNo Comments

Sara Stratton Trinity St. Paul’s and Bloor Street United Churches For the last 18 months or so, the biggest part of my job with the Canadian Ecumenical Jubilee Initiative has…