{"id":915734,"date":"2026-09-30T20:40:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T20:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/915734\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T20:40:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T20:40:27","slug":"national-day-for-truth-and-reconciliation-vancouvers-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/915734\/","title":{"rendered":"National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: Vancouver’s Commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Above: City of Vancouver\u2019s YouTube (2 minutes) video for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation<\/p>\n

CityHallWatch acknowledges the\u00a0National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. This is the second time the day is being observed nationwide, and second time for the City of Vancouver.<\/p>\n

The City has created a special page dedicated to this day, with useful materials, including video and links to the \u201cNational Day for Truth and Reconciliation Proclamation,\u201d the \u201c2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action\u201d final report and its 94 recommendations to \u201credress the legacy of residential schools and advance the process of Canadian reconciliation,\u201d and the 27 actionable areas identified for the City.<\/p>\n

LINK:\u00a0https:\/\/vancouver.ca\/people-programs\/truth-and-reconciliation.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n

CBC has extensive programming for today. <\/p>\n

As one concrete action today, how about reading the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action? (Link here<\/a>.) Download and refer to it often.<\/p>\n

Vancouver\u2019s actionable areas are identified in three themes:<\/p>\n

Healthy communities and wellness<\/p>\n

Achieving Indigenous human rights and recognition<\/p>\n

Advancing awareness, knowledge, and capacity|<\/p>\n

Excerpt from City website:<\/p>\n

Aligning the Truth and Reconciliation call to actions with our work<\/p>\n

This September, Mayor Ken Sim issued a proclamation on behalf of the City of Vancouver, affirming the City\u2019s dedication to working towards genuine reconciliation.<\/p>\n

The City acknowledges that while progress has been made, including signing of the new protocol agreement with S\u1e35wx\u0331w\u00fa7mesh External website, opens in new tab<\/a> , discussions of similar agreements with s\u0259l\u0313ilw\u0259ta\u0241\u026c and x\u02b7m\u0259\u03b8k\u02b7\u0259y\u0313 \u0259m, furthering the MMIWG2S report PDF file (1.7 MB)<\/a> implementation plan, and developing the City\u2019s United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) 5-year action plan for the implementation of the 79 recommendations, significant work is still needed to bring about meaningful change.<\/p>\n

In June 2024, we commemorated 10 years as a City of Reconciliation<\/a>.\u00a0The City acknowledges that our Reconciliation efforts should have begun earlier, and that there is still much work to do<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In June 2021, the federal government voted to recognize National Day for Truth and Reconciliation as a statutory holiday, as a direct response to Call to Action 80 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.<\/p>\n

The City will be closed on September 30. Staff may take time to deepen their understanding of the intergenerational trauma caused by\u00a0Residential Schools and\u00a0how they can advance Reconciliation in their communities.<\/p>\n

A day of remembrance<\/p>\n

To honour the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in 2022, Mayor Kennedy Stewart issued a proclamation PDF file\u00a0(509 KB)<\/a> on behalf of the City of Vancouver, declaring September 30 as the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action final report PDF file (299 KB)<\/a>\u00a0listed 94 recommendations to \u201credress the legacy of residential schools and advance the process of Canadian reconciliation.\u201d Of those, 27 have been identified as actionable areas for the City.\u00a0Review these 27 calls to action here PDF file\u00a0 (204 KB)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For a comprehensive look at our most recent Reconciliation actions, review our Reconciliation report PDF file (528\u00a0KB)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Websites of First Nations in the region (More to be added)<\/p>\n

Musqueam Nation:\u00a0https:\/\/www.musqueam.bc.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Squamish Nation:\u00a0https:\/\/www.squamish.net\/olympic-mou\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Tsleil-Waututh Nation:\u00a0https:\/\/twnation.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Lil\u2019wat Nation:\u00a0https:\/\/lilwat.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Above: City of Vancouver\u2019s YouTube (2 minutes) video for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation CityHallWatch acknowledges the\u00a0National…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-915734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}