09/30/2026
Today, on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day, NPAO honours the children who never returned home, the Survivors of residential schools, their families, and their communities.
As Nurse Practitioners and healthcare leaders, we have a responsibility to listen, learn, reflect, and act in ways that support culturally safe care, truth, reconciliation, and Indigenous self-determination in health.
Reconciliation is not one day of reflection. It is an ongoing commitment to understanding the harms of colonialism, addressing anti-Indigenous racism in healthcare, and supporting safer, more respectful systems of care for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples.
Today and every day, we remember. We reflect. We commit to doing better.