Category archives: Speeches

215 shoes

Posted on June 8, 2021June 8, 2021by pattyk

Remarks from a ceremony to gather in shoes and raise the flags at City Hall in St. Catharines.June 8, 2021. Video available on Facebook. photo credit, Jill Shimizu-Lunn Aniin, boozhoo. Wabanan Anangokwe n’dshnakhaaz. Adik dodem. Obishkokaang n’doonjiba. Oniaghara n’doonjiba. Ojibwe Anishnaabe n’daw. I am the daughter of Roy Wesley. Roy...

Solidarity is not a metaphor

Posted on March 7, 2021by pattyk

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Remarks from International Women's Day event, given March 7 2021 to the Peel Labour Council. One day Nanabush was walking along the shoreline. He was hungry. And he was lazy. So he looked for a way to get food without working too hard. He saw some ducks. He liked roasted...