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I talk about Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, which grew out of Orange Shirt Day and was established to honor residential school survivors and those who never returned home. I also note it’s also International Podcast Day.

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Topics:
00:00 Welcome
00:10 Truth and Reconciliation Day
00:48 Residential Schools History
01:14 Calls to Action and Holiday
02:06 Poem Monster Recommendation
02:43 How to Respond Thoughtfully
03:33 International Podcast Day
03:57 Thanking Podcasters
04:35 Listener Photo Idea
05:24 Wrap Up and Subscribe

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What is Daily(ish)?

Challenging myself to record a podcast episode a day for my 50th year on this planet.

Hello and welcome to Dailyish for
Wednesday, September 30th, 2026.

I'm recording an episode every day for
this, my 50th year on the planet I wanted

to start off today's episode just by
mentioning that today in Canada, it's the

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

What originally started as Orange Shirt
Day here in Canada on September 30th, 2013

has been since become National Day, the
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

And it was established to honor
residential school survivors in Canada

who never returned home uh, it's
marked visually anyways by, wearing

an orange shirt in remembrance of the
kids, the families affected both when

it happened as well as the ripple
on effects throughout generations

there were 140 federally run residential
schools in Canada that operated

between 1867 and as recent as 1996.

Survivors advocated for
recognition and reparations and

demanded accountability for the
intergenerational impacts of harm caused.

Which culminated in the residential
school settlement agreement, apologies

by our government, the establishment of
the Truth and Reconciliation Commission,

and the creation of the National
Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.

That commission ran from two thousand
and eight to twenty fifteen, and

released a call, a report with
ninety-four calls to action.

And the National Day for Truth and
Reconciliation is a direct response to

call to action eighty, which called for
a federal statutory day of commemoration.

So in Canada, it's a federal
holiday, but not a national holiday.

I think that's the right wording.

Forgive me if I'm wrong.

So schools aren't in session.

Uh, federal employees have the day off But
it's not a day that businesses necessarily

shut down or cities as a whole continue on

So I'll include links in the episode page
just for more reading, more research to

find out more If this is something that's
new to you as far as Canada, I'm sure-- I

know that, uh, different countries around
the world have various days of truth

and reconciliation to try to, reconnect
and make reparations to the indigenous

people of their land and their country

One story, uh, that impacted me a
lot when I first saw it a number of

years ago, and I continue to rewatch
it, re-listen to it each year around

this time, is, a poem that Dennis
Sadleman read at the National Truth

and Reconciliation Day back in twenty
twenty-two His poem is called Monster.

It's about his own experience
at the residential school in

Kamloops, British Columbia, that
he was forced to attend as a child

And so I won't embed it here in the
episode But if you want to listen,

the link to the CBC News story about
it and his, the recording of him

reading it is also in the show page

It's one of those complicated
kind of days because life goes on.

Life is normal, so to speak, for a lot
of people in Canada on a day like today.

Kids are off school,
like I said, for example.

And so it's important to explain,
educate, and understand why

a day like this is happening

And it can be a struggle to
figure out how to respond.

I-- There's a lot of emotion with
it and anger, sadness, frustration,

why haven't we done more?

That kind of feeling.

But then also a, a very real
feeling of what should I do?

What is the next best thing I can
do to help and make things better?

without doing performative
tokenizing kind of acts or words

So I just wanted to use what
little platform I have here on this

podcast and this, this, uh, project
to just highlight that on today

September 30th also happens to be
International Podcast Day, which,

uh, is just a kind of a day to
highlight podcasting in general

and talk about the various folks
involved in podcasting, a bit of the

history and all that kind of stuff.

I don't have any direct connection to it
really, but just to highlight that as also

something to check out and be aware of
as, um, you're listening to this podcast.

There'll be a few links in the show notes
to check out about, just about podcasting

in general if you're curious of sort
of the history and things like that

One thing I will say, um, this is not a
humble brag or humble ask, I guess, I'm

not sure how to say that, but something
that podcasters I know appreciate a

lot is if you take the time to send
them a reply, either on social media,

in email form, or a YouTube comment,
whatever, for the podcast they do.

So I'm not asking for you to reply to this
show, my show, but just making a note or

remembering to send some sort of, like,
acknowledgement or thank you to podcasters

that you do listen to, whether you think
they're too big to be aware that you

would be listening to their show or not.

It's just kind of something, some way
to, like, a tangible human effort of

showing that there are actually people
out there listening to their podcast.

Something that's kind of neat sometimes
is to send, uh, if, if you feel safe

doing this obviously, and things like
that, but sending a photo of you listening

to a podcast somewhere in the world,
'cause it's kind of like this weird thing

where they record this thing in their
home office or wherever they happen to

record something, and then send it out
into the world, and then it, like I

talked about in the last episode a bit,
it doesn't really exist as a physical

thing, but it's something that people
do listen to in, you know, on the drive

to work or while they're doing dishes or
walking the dog or whatever it might be.

And, uh, so just by way of showing the
podcasters that you're listening to

already somewhere in the world, take a
photo, selfie, whatever, while you're

listening and show this sort of context
behind where their words, their po-

podcast, their efforts are being heard.

Just kind of a neat way to sort
of, again, make this all very,

a little more real anyways.

Not always able to do it totally

All right, as always, feel free to
reply to the post like I just talked

about on the social media where I
told you about this episode, or you

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Have a great day.

Bye.