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By Ian Gustafson

Education

Multicultural Council of Saskatchewan holding P.A. community forum on racism and colonialism

Mar 18, 2022 | 12:39 PM

Prince Albert and Saskatchewan residents, who want to learn to recognize colonialism and racism, will get the opportunity through an online Prince Albert Community forum hosted by the Multicultural Council of Saskatchewan.

The free virtual meeting will take place from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. and the public can join by registering for the event on eventbrite. They will then receive an email and with a Zoom link and other information. This forum is in partnership with the Prince Albert Multicultural Council.

Rhonda Rosenberg, executive director of the Multicultural Council of Saskatchewan told paNOW they will focus on the colonization in racism and in a Prince Albert context.

“We have Willie Ermine from the University of Saskatchewan coming and he will be sharing information about how racism and colonialism have been bound together in Canada and in Saskatchewan. How that has created harms and our systems and structures,” she said adding they will also move into break out rooms and discuss the presentation.

She explained how each community they do community forums in, they work with local partners and after speaking with the Prince Albert Multicultural Council, she said they found colonialism was an area that not many people knew much about. She added this could also be an opportunity for newcomers and Indigenous people in the community to have points of connection around colonialism.

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“Saskatchewan’s still really dealing with ongoing colonialism and so we all need to understand it in order to recognize it and be able to make changes that are based on far more equitable ways of working together,” Rosenberg said.

When asked if she felt racism is still prevalent on Saskatchewan and Prince Albert she replied absolutely it is.

“We talk about four different levels of racism, we talk about structural, systemic, interpersonal, and internalized. And we see all of those very much out there… In Prince Albert I’m very aware it’s a higher Indigenous population, First Nation and Metis folks are really frequently the targets of racism,” she explained.

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