Law Society of Saskatchewan News National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day 2025
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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day 2025
September 25, 2025September 30 is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day. This day honours the survivors of residential schools, families, and communities, while also remembering those whose loved ones never returned home.
The Law Society office and library locations are closed on Tuesday, September 30, 2025, to observe the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day. Observing this day provides an opportunity to reflect, learn, and take meaningful action toward reconciliation.
Please visit the Law Society’s Truth and Reconciliation webpage for a list of resources and reading materials. Additional learning materials and events are listed below:
Continuing Professional Development
- CPD 428 – A Treaty Simulation with Lyndon Linklater
- CPD 400 – Māmawī Wīcihitowin: An Anti-Dominance Framework for a Bright Future of Reconciliation
- CPD 395 – Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Care
- CPD 390 – A Critical Examination of the Application of Gladue Factors in Saskatchewan’s Lower Courts
- CPD 366 – Indigenous Judges Speak: Indigenous Experience in the Legal Profession and Beyond
- CPD 365 – Introducing the Gladue Submission Guide: A Practical Resource for Indigenous Clients and their Counsel
- CPD 363 – UNDRIP in the Context of Resource Development
- CPD 357 – Residential Schools Legacy
Legal Resources Library Reading Materials
Members of the Law Society can borrow texts by contacting Legal Resources staff or by placing a request through the online catalogue. Members of the public can view print texts by visiting a Law Society Legal Resources library location.
- Clearing the plains: disease, politics of starvation, and the loss of Aboriginal life / James Daschuk
- 21 things you may not know about the Indian Act / Robert Joesph
- Peace and good order: the case for Indigenous justice in Canada / Harold Johnson
- Missing & murdered Indigenous people in “Canada”: an inclusionary approach to understanding violence against the original people of Turtle Island / Jen MtPleasant
- Canadian justice, Indigenous injustice: the Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie case / Kent Roach
- Suffer little children: genocide, Indigenous nations and the Canadian state / Tamara Starblanket
Community Events and Organizations
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