John and Mic

A conversation with Adam Olsen about the Territorial Acknowledgement

As someone who chairs and/or leads business meetings on a regular basis, I have been encouraged and challenged to begin meetings with a First Nations Territorial Acknowledgement. It's been a fascinating, earnest & unexpected  journey of self-awareness and personal reconciliation.

 

I have sought guidance and understanding from regional First Nations leaders and have recorded these discussions to help broaden the dialogue & conversation amongst business community colleagues.

Saanich North & the Islands MLA Adam Olsen and I have had numerous private and public conversations over the last 18 months specific to the Territorial Acknowledgement background and reasoning. Adam wrote about this issue in his blog at:

• https://adamolsen.ca/2019/05/whose-territory/ &
• https://adamolsen.ca/2019/04/acknowledging-territory-words-and-actions/

Thank you Adam for the invaluable education and historical context dialogue and reconciliation that is just starting for so many of us.

Emergent Youth & Female Leadership in the First Nations Communities - a conversation with Mavis Underwood (Tsawout Nation)

Consider listening to Mavis Underwood - community leader, advocate and mentor - speak to how a powerful emergent force represented by Youth & Female representation is increasingly guiding local First Nations into the future.

Sidney Breakfast Club - Tamara Knott, Owner - Bright Green’s & Steve Duck, Sandown Regenerative Agriculture Center

”Shop Local Food - Coming of Age” - An online thought Leadership Forum

• Adam Olsen
• Steve Duck
• Lindsay Daulty

Evelyn Turner - Farm Manager, 10 Acres Farm & Restaurant Group

Steve Duck - TIDES Group - Agri-Tourism on the Peninsula

V2V Black Hops Brewing (Westshore Business - May 28th, 2020)

A conversation with Skeena MLA Ellis Ross - May 22nd

"The beginning of the middle" - we chat about:

• how COVID has impacted his representative community in Northern BC (Skeena, Northern BC, Kitimat) 
• what does a "new economy" look like
• Kelly reviews the new technology based office environment

Northern BC Pipeline Politics

• Ellis reviews what has happened specific to this issue within the last several months (rights & title, treaty negotiations)
• what is the future?