JUNE 21National Indigenous Peoples Day
Ceremony in Peace River, Alberta honouring the 215 children who never returned from the Kamloops Indian Residential School.• National Indigenous Peoples Day• Profound Political and Constitutional Renewal Is Needed to
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JUNE 23, 1990
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On June 23, 1990, the Meech Lake Accord was defeated. It was a set of amendments to the Constitution of Canada negotiated behind closed doors in 1987 by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the provincial premiers. The failure of the Meech Lake Accord marked a deepening of the constitutional crisis which has now become an existential crisis due to Canada’s all-sided integration into the U.S. war economy and state arrangements.
JUNE 24Celebration of Quebec National Day
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June 24 is celebrated as Quebec National Day. The celebration rejoins another modern and forward-looking tradition established some 187 years ago — the celebration of the Quebec nation and all its inhabitants established on March 8, 1834, by 19th century revolutionary and progressive patriots who founded the Aide-toi, le ciel t’aidera Society (“God helps those who help themselves”). he aim of that patriotic institution was to “provide a designated place for thought (for all those who recognized the necessity for change) to discuss the country’s state of affairs” and “to rekindle the burning desire of love of country, [
