{"id":33231,"date":"2020-06-21T10:24:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T14:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=33231"},"modified":"2020-06-21T10:24:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T14:24:49","slug":"celebrating-national-indigenous-peoples-day-in-ontario-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/21\/celebrating-national-indigenous-peoples-day-in-ontario-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating National Indigenous Peoples Day in Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/nad1170px_1432040617140_eng.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22455\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/nad1170px_1432040617140_eng-300x89.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"89\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/nad1170px_1432040617140_eng-300x89.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/nad1170px_1432040617140_eng-768x228.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/nad1170px_1432040617140_eng-600x178.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/nad1170px_1432040617140_eng.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Greg Rickford, Minister of Indigenous Affairs, issued the following statement on National Indigenous Peoples Day:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>&#8220;Today is National Indigenous Peoples Day, a day to celebrate the unique heritage, cultural diversity and rich traditions of the First Nations, Inuit, and M\u00e9tis peoples in Ontario. It is also a day to recognize the contributions of Indigenous Peoples to our province, and the need to continue working together as partners based on mutual respect and the recognition of rights.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>In place of in-person festivities this year, our government encourages every Ontarian to participate in one of the many virtual celebrations taking place across the province. We also invite everyone to take a moment and reflect on the Indigenous experience, as well as the systemic barriers that continue to impact Indigenous peoples in our society today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>We all have a role to play in building a more inclusive Ontario, and we must continue to work together to eliminate hate, racism and discrimination in all its forms.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Today and every day, let each and every one of us do our part to respect and help preserve Indigenous cultures, while building a more inclusive society and stronger Ontario.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Rickford, Minister of Indigenous Affairs, issued the following statement on National Indigenous Peoples Day: &#8220;Today is National Indigenous Peoples Day, a day to celebrate the unique heritage, cultural diversity and rich traditions of the First Nations, Inuit, and M\u00e9tis peoples in Ontario. It is also a day to recognize the contributions of Indigenous Peoples &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":22455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,38],"tags":[2100],"class_list":["post-33231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indigenous","category-provincial","tag-national-indigenous-peoples-day-2019"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 15:34:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33232,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33231\/revisions\/33232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}