On December 10th, 2024, the Jesuit Forum for Social Faith and Justice hosted an online event on "How to discern our vote", in partnership with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Toronto, Catholic Conscience, Centre Oblat, Mary Ward Centre, Office of Religious Congregations for Integral Ecology, Regis College, Sisters of St Joseph Toronto. 1) Ted […]
LIST of RESOURCES in association with LTIV Video suggestion: Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy 2:05 hr Blackfoot filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers takes us into the empathy practice of her people on the Blood/Kainai Reserve in the midst of the fentanyl crises. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy2EijWg39g&t=1s Books that inform and foster reconciliation Chief Clarence Louie. Rez Rules: My indictment […]
On May 26, 2025, the Jesuit Forum gathered LTIV Facilitators and Organizers on Zoom. This was an occasion to present the platforms that the Forum is putting together (resource page, Facebook group, email list - sign up by emailing us at ltiv@jesuitforum.ca). Participants expressed the wish to have at least three online meetings per year. […]
On November 26, the Jesuit Forum for Social Faith and Justice held an online exchange for Listening to Indigenous Voices (LTIV) organizers & facilitators. The online forum gave the participants an opportunity to share their LTIV experiences, best practices and post-LTIV activities they have initiated in their groups and communities. The hope is that the […]
September 30, 2024 marks Canada’s 4th National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a federal statutory holiday devoted to honouring survivors of residential schools, as well as the children who will never return to their families and communities. The Jesuit Forum for Social Faith and Justice seeks to honour this public commemoration of such a tragic […]
Members of the Jesuit Forum joined thousands in downtown Toronto in a march to Queen's Park to demand long needed action to address the mercury poisoning the drinking water of Grassy Narrows First Nation. Community members and leaders travelled over 1700 km from Grassy Narrows, near Ontario's border with Manitoba border, to Toronto to demand […]
Monday, September 30, is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. On this day, the much anticipated Spirit Garden will be officially opened to the public at Nathan Phillips Square at 1:00pm during the 2024 Indigenous Legacy Gathering. This permanent memorial, designed by Indigenous artists, is a response “to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of […]
(Photo: Saint John's Bible-Genesis [Detail]) Beginning Tuesday, October 1 @ 5:00 EST, and continuing each month of the current academic year through hybrid delivery, Regis-St. Michael’s College is offering a series of lectures exploring the intricate interplay between climate change, science, and theology as critical topics of our time. Through engagement with experts and practitioners […]
This past July, an important Supreme Court of Canada decision was made on behalf of Indigenous communities. It unanimously rejected the Ontario government’s recent claim that it is not liable to remedy past underpayments to the Robinson Superior communities under an augmentation clause of the Robinson Huron and Superior Treaties. Through the Robinson-Huron Treaty terms, […]