Is Canada on the edge? Is it on the leading edge? Is it cutting edge? Or are we falling off the edge? These are all questions that we ponder in today’s changing dynamic. Join us for a series of discussions engaging with this theme from a myriad of approaches and lenses, not limited to but including panels on “Canada in the World”, “Women, Gender, and Sexuality”, and “Treaties, Law, and the Land”.
For a full schedule and to register, please visit the

Attendance is free. 

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Where: 519 Kaneff Tower
When: Reception at 5:30 with refreshments and music. Robarts Lecture starts at 6:30 PM.

RSVP to robarts@yorku.ca

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Exhibition unveiling: 5 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Scott Library's Atrium, 2nd floor
Please bring a smartphone or tablet with a data plan to access the exhibition's digital content. You will need a QR code reader, or download the free mobile app izi.Travel here. Head/earphones are recommended.

Presentation and film screening: 7 p.m. - 10.00 p.m.
Price Family Cinema, Accolade East Building

Both events are open to all! Hope to see you there! 

The "City Builders" project aims to record, examine, and divulge the fascinating history of metropolitan Toronto's construction industry; particularly the experiences of Irish, Italian, and Portuguese immigrant workers and their labour organization after the Second World War. Its outputs include: 1) a travelling exhibition with extensive augmented reality-activated digital content; 2) a website packed with interactive digital resources in the form of text, photos, info graphics, audio recordings, videos, maps, and timelines (a few examples here, here, and here); 3) a series of eighteen 6-8 minute-long oral history videos about the lives of retired construction workers and union members (example here); and 4) a two-part documentary, totalling two hours, about two transformative moments in the history of Toronto's construction industry and labour movement.

The first episode of the documentary focuses on the successful campaign by the Irish-Canadian labour activist Gerry Gallagher and his Laborers' Local 183 to improve workplace safety legislation in Ontario in the 1960s-70s, when over 200 construction workers lost their lives building the city, above ground and under. The second episode focuses on the labour organization of Italian immigrant workers in the residential construction sector, known at the time as "the jungle" due to its terrible working conditions and widespread exploitation by developers and (sub)contractors. Led by the charismatic Bruno Zanini - a petty criminal and aspiring opera singer turned labour organizer - and the thundering Charles Irvine - a shillelagh-wielding, Scottish immigrant, who was once a banana boat seaman - bricklayers, plasterers, carpenters, and labourers, organized as the Brandon Union Group, engaged in two major strikes in 1960 and 61; the latter being one of the largest and most violent in the city's postwar history.

With the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections, we digitized over 3,200 photos from the Toronto Telegram collection, featuring incredible photos of the city's landmarks being built and of the historical agents who made them possible. Many of these have the potential of becoming iconic images of Toronto, whose dissemination will likely extend beyond the confines of this project.

All of the City Builders' digital outputs will be freely accessible online after September 28.

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Opening remarks at 9am.

We invite Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, faculty, senior undergraduate, and graduate students to engage in a day of meaningful conversations about the responsibilities of ethical research engagements with Indigenous communities, including forms this research might take within the context of a changing sociopolitical landscape. We invite you to come together and explore thought-provoking ethics issues in diverse areas of Indigenous research.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: 
Deborah McGregor (Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Environmental Justice, Faculties of Law and Environmental Studies, �첥��Ƶ) 
Julie Bull (Research Methods Specialist, Centre for Addiction & Mental Health and Indigenous Studies Program, U of Toronto).

GUEST KNOWLEDGE KEEPER:
Amy Desjarlais

Registration for this event is required as space is limited and lunch as well as refreshments will be included.

Please visit the and follow the registration link on the homepage.

Questions? Please contact the workshop organizers

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Please visit the to conference website at to RSVP and for more information.

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Join the organizers on Sunday July 30 for a roundtable on “ Indigeneity and Children’s and Young Adult Literature.” This roundtable features authors, illustrators, and performers from Indigenous communities within the colonial settler states of Canada and Mexico whose work explores the challenges and affordances of representing Indigenous experience in various media and texts for children and youth, as well as generative tensions in their work between local, national, and international conceptions of Indigeneity. Participants include Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton, Drew Hayden Taylor, and Cuauhtémoc Germán Cuaquehua Calixto (Cuauhtémoc Wetzka).

When: 5:00pm-6:30 PM;

Where: 109 Accolade East, Keele Campus, �첥��Ƶ

This event is open to all delegates and to the �첥��Ƶ community.  

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Join the organizers on Sunday July 30 for a roundtable on “ Indigeneity and Children’s and Young Adult Literature.” This roundtable features authors, illustrators, and performers from Indigenous communities within the colonial settler states of Canada and Mexico whose work explores the challenges and affordances of representing Indigenous experience in various media and texts for children and youth, as well as generative tensions in their work between local, national, and international conceptions of Indigeneity. Participants include Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton, Drew Hayden Taylor, and Cuauhtémoc Germán Cuaquehua Calixto (Cuauhtémoc Wetzka).

When: 5:00pm-6:30 PM;

Where: 109 Accolade East, Keele Campus, �첥��Ƶ

This event is open to all delegates and to the �첥��Ƶ community.  

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When: Thursday, June 1, 7:00pm 

Where: Kaneff Tower - Room 626, �첥��Ƶ, Keele Campus

This is a free event and all are welcome to attend!

This book explores the profound social, cultural, and political changes that affected the way in which Canadians and Australians defined themselves as a “people” from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. It asks a key historical question: why and how did multiculturalism replace Britishness as the defining idea of community for English-speaking Canada and Australia, and what does this say about their respective experiences of nationalism in the twentieth century?

Dr. Jatinder Mann is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London and a former Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta. He is currently working on a project on ‘The end of the British World and the redefinition of citizenship in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, 1950s-1970s’. He has also published numerous articles in front ranking, interdisciplinary journals. Jatinder has held visiting fellowships and professorships at the Australian National University, Carleton University, and the Victoria University of Wellington. He was awarded his doctorate in history at the University of Sydney in 2011. Jatinder was also a recipient of the prestigious Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship by the Australian government and an International Postgraduate Award by the University of Sydney for his doctoral research.

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When: Thursday, June 1, 7:00pm 

Where: Kaneff Tower - Room 626, �첥��Ƶ, Keele Campus

This is a free event and all are welcome to attend!

This book explores the profound social, cultural, and political changes that affected the way in which Canadians and Australians defined themselves as a “people” from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. It asks a key historical question: why and how did multiculturalism replace Britishness as the defining idea of community for English-speaking Canada and Australia, and what does this say about their respective experiences of nationalism in the twentieth century?

Dr. Jatinder Mann is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London and a former Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta. He is currently working on a project on ‘The end of the British World and the redefinition of citizenship in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, 1950s-1970s’. He has also published numerous articles in front ranking, interdisciplinary journals. Jatinder has held visiting fellowships and professorships at the Australian National University, Carleton University, and the Victoria University of Wellington. He was awarded his doctorate in history at the University of Sydney in 2011. Jatinder was also a recipient of the prestigious Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship by the Australian government and an International Postgraduate Award by the University of Sydney for his doctoral research.

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