Season 3

Bradley Regehr’s series The President’s take on TRC’s Calls to Action highlights many of the 94 calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, particularly those related to the legal profession.

Episodes

Meet Bradley Regehr, CBA President 2020

Conversations with the President | The President's Take on TRC's Calls to Action
November 2020

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We are chatting with Brad Regehr, the new Canadian Bar Association President and the first Indigenous person to take on the role. We’re talking about reconciliation, Covid-19 and even his amateur theatre career.

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Conversation on Call-To-Action 11 - Adequate Education Funding

Conversations with the President | The President's Take on TRC's Calls to Action
December 2020

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For his first episode as host of Conversations with the President, Brad talks with Alyssa Bird, Evans Family Law, and Robin Sutherland, Director of Indigenous Relations at Lakehead’s Bora Laskin Faculty of Law, about the The Truth and Reconciliation’s eleventh call to action.

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Conversations on Call to Action 27 - Cultural Competency Training

Conversations with the President | The President's Take on TRC's Calls to Action
January 2021

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Brad Regehr discusses Call to Action number 27's aim at making sure practising lawyers receive cultural competency training, with Jennifer David and Michael McDonald, Q.C.

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Conversations on Calls to action 34-40 - Indigenous people in the justice system

Conversations with the President | The President's Take on TRC's Calls to Action
February 2021

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President Brad Regehr discusses Calls to Action 34 and 40 with Harold R. Johnson and Stacey Soldier. They speak on the problem of over-incarceration of Indigenous peoples and how the system failed them.

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Conversations on Calls to Action 28 - Going to school

Conversations with the President | The President's Take on TRC's Calls to Action
March 2021

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President Brad Regehr meets with Dr. Val Napoleon and Sigma Daum Shanks to discuss Call to Action 28, which calls on law schools to require students to take a course in Aboriginal people and the law.

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Conversations on Calls to action 42, 50, 51, 62 Recognition of Aboriginal justice systems

Conversations with the President | The President's Take on TRC's Calls to Action
April 2021

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President Brad Regehr discusses the recognition of Aboriginal justice systems with John Borrows and Naiomi Metallic.

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Conversations on Calls to Action 43, 44, 45, 46 and 92 - UNDRIP as a reconciliation framework

Conversations with the President | The President's Take on TRC's Calls to Action
May 2021

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President Brad Regehr discusses the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples with Aimée Craft and Brenda Gunn.

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Conversations on Call to Action 57 - Aboriginal-Crown relations

Conversations with the President | The President's Take on TRC's Calls to Action
July 2021

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President Brad Regehr speaks with Maggie Wente and David Nahwegahbow on Call to Action number 57 which calls for governments at all levels to educate civil servants on the history of Aboriginal peoples in Canada, Indigenous law and Aboriginal-Crown relations.

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Beyond the CTAs

Conversations with the President | The President's Take on TRC's Calls to Action
August 2021

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For his final episode as host of Conversations with the President, CBA President Brad Regehr speaks with Cindy Blackstock and Dr Pamela Palmater to discuss the next steps beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action.

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