Thread by @globeandmail

As Canada marks the first National Day for #TruthAndReconciliation, #TheDecibel looks at its origin in #OrangeShirtDay, and explore how to meaningfully measure progress toward reconciliation.

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One way to measure progress is the ‘reconciliation barometer,’ developed by Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers.

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🎧 @starzyklab, principal investigator on the project, and @rymoran, a collaborator, join #TheDecibel to help explain what exactly the project is measuring, and how this gauge can be used to inform the conversation around reconciliation.

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Can you explain what a reconciliation barometer (@BarometerLab) is meant to do?

🔊 @starzyklab: “The barometer is a set of survey questions that we're asking Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. It has 13 indicators that speak to different aspects of reconciliation.”

🔊 @starzyklab: “If we ask Indigenous people to report whether non-Indigenous people are treated fairly in health care and Indigenous people say no, and non-Indigenous people say yes – then we see that there's some distance that we have to work on.”

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🔊 @starzyklab: “Part of the process of reconciliation is having a shared sense of reality, creating the same story together.”

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🔊 Ry Moran: “One of the most common questions I get asked is ‘how are we doing?’ We can say there is a lot happening or point to pieces of legislation. It’s the right question to be asking.”

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🔊 Ry Moran: “If we're not sort of succeeding on this path of reconciliation, we do have to ask ourselves what we need to redouble our efforts so that we don't find ourselves in the same state of affairs 20 years down the road.”

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On the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, two researchers tell #TheDecibel how they’ve developed a way to measure progress towards reconciliation.

🔊 Katherine Starzyck and Ry Moran join the show to discuss the Reconciliation Barometer

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