Current Issues
The following issues currently dominate how we live our lives. For further information, please check out the links following each item.
Climate Crisis
For the Love of Creation
https://fortheloveofcreation.ca/
Anglican Diocese of NS/PEI Environmental Network (DEN) Zoom calls
https://www.nspeidiocese.ca/ministries/diocesan-environment-network
The new Papal Encyclical
Roman Catholic – United Church of Canada Dialogue report on climate change
Genuine Progress Index for Atlantic Canada
Guardian article: The Great Unravelling: I never thought I’d live to see the horror of Planetary Collapse
Covid-19
Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health
https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/ocmoh.html
Government of New Brunswick
https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/corporate/promo/covid-19.html
https://www2.gnb.ca/content/dam/gnb/Departments/eco-bce/Promo/covid-19/recovery_level_comparison.pdf
Worksafe NB
United Church of Canada
Government of Canada
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/coronavirus-disease-covid-19.html
Wellness Together Canada
Homelessness
Greater Moncton Homelessness Steering Committee
https://www.monctonhomelessness.org/home
http://www5.moncton.ca/docs/Street_Survival_Guide.pdf
https://www.monctonhomelessness.org/partners
YMCA of Greater Moncton – ReConnect Street Intervention Program
https://moncton.ymca.ca/en/Programs/Outreach/ReConnect?nolocation=1
Salvus Clinic
Indigenous Issues
The United Church of Canada
https://united-church.ca/worship-theme/indigenous
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
United Church of Canada + The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission | The United Church of Canada
Public statement on the fifth anniversary of the final report of the truth and reconciliation commission of Canada
https://news.nctr.ca/articles/trc-commissioners-statement?mc_cid=2b94ed37be&mc_eid=d5410db50e
https://www.aptnnews.ca/truth-and-reconciliation-five-years-later/
United Church Response to the TRC Calls to Action
Kairos
Ravens: Messengers of Change
https://www.kairosblanketexercise.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Raven-Activity-Book-June-2020.pdf
Kairos Blanket Exercise
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two-Spirit + (MMIWG2S+)
https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/
The United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)
https://en.unesco.org/indigenous-peoples/undrip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_on_the_Rights_of_Indigenous_Peoples
The Wabanaki Confederacy
https://canadaehx.com/2020/11/21/the-wabanaki-confederacy/
www.native-languages.org/wabanaki.htm
Racism
Black Lives Matter
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/black-lives-matter-chapter-nb-1.5612671
https://www.blmfredericton.ca/
United Church of Canada
https://united-church.ca/social-action/justice-initiatives/anti-racism
United Nations – International Decade for People of African Descent 2015-2024
https://www.un.org/en/observances/decade-people-african-descent