Ontario NDP's Sol Mamakwa wants provincial holiday for truth and reconciliation day
Ontario's only First Nation representative at Queen's Park plans to soon table proposed legislation, in his own Indigenous language, to have the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation declared a paid provincial holiday.
Sol Mamakwa proposing provincial holiday for Sept. 30
QUEEN'S PARK — The MPP for the Northwestern Ontario riding of Kiiwetinoong wants Ontario to declare the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation a paid provincial holiday. September 30 is currently a statutory holiday for federally-regulated workers.
This MPP wants to make Truth and Reconciliation Day a paid holiday for Ontarians. Here’s what you need to know
Today marks Truth and Reconciliation Day, and an Indigenous Ontario politician is proposing for it to be a province-wide holiday.
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NDP MPP Sol Mamakwa addresses a press conference in Toronto on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. Ontario's only First Nation representative at Queen's Park plans to soon table proposed legislation, in his own Indigenous language, to have the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation declared a paid provincial holiday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov
Truth and Reconciliation day should be paid provincial holiday: Ontario MPP
Ontario's only First Nation MPP plans to soon table proposed legislation to have the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation declared a paid provincial holiday.
Ontario MPP seeks paid provincial holiday for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
New Democrat deputy leader Sol Mamakwa wants Ontario to follow the federal government’s lead and said he hopes Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives will support the idea
Ontario MPP seeks paid provincial holiday for Truth and Reconciliation day
TORONTO - Ontario's only First Nation representative at Queen's Park plans to soon table proposed legislation, in his own Indigenous language, to have the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
He left residential school when he was 15. Now he's going back for the first time.
I remember missing my family,’ says Ontario MPP Sol Mamakwa, who was forced to attend residential school In 1985.
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