Survey Feedback From Our Project Launch

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J.E.D.I. Initiative

The virtual launch of our Intercultural and Intergenerational Diversity and Inclusion Engagement Project (funded by the Government of Canada) on October 19, 2022 proved very successful! Feedback from those attending was very positive with those completing our survey overwhelmingly stating that the event and our panel discussion very much met their expectations. Participants also told us that:

  • The event also got them thinking much more about social justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion
  • They are very concerned about racism, discrimination and hatred impacting their life and the wellbeing of their cultural community
  • They strongly believe in the resilience of their community
  • They are hopeful that in the next 5 years racism and hatred can be reduced and that their cultural community can flourish even more
  • They believe that youth in their community have an important leadership role to play in bringing about change

Participants also shared their ideas on ways to reduce hatred and discrimination and increase equity, diversity, and inclusion. Here are some of their thoughtful suggestions:

  • Educate people to learn respect and accept other people as they are
  • Meet other people as people first and secondly be willing to listen with an open heart
  • Be kind and compassionate to all
  • Coach and mentor youth in the community to become leaders of tomorrow
  • Listen to people in my community and work in partnership with others in their communities that are experiencing the same
  • Be the change agent and work with different stakeholders to achieve the objectives of social justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion
  • The doors should be open to all people and there needs to be more community engagement
  • There needs to be more inclusivity and comfort for all walks of life

Our project is all about sharing ideas and promoting dialogue. What are your ideas? What can you do to be a change agent?

Please join us as we work together to talk about social justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion and take action to reduce hatred and discrimination and strengthen community wellbeing!

Find Out More

To learn more about our Intercultural and Intergenerational Diversity and Inclusion Engagement Project, go to our J.E.D.I. Initiative landing page here.

To get involved with this or any of our other projects, activities and initiatives, fill out our contact form here or email us at hello@cmccfamilies.ca

This project is funded by:

J.E.D.I. Initiative
Community Writers Project

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The Purpose of These Peace-First: CollaborationNet Pages These pages exist to share what we have learned. Over the past year, Peace-First: CollaborationNet has operated as a time-limited demonstration initiative, which is a space to test ideas, host conversations, and discover what might grow when peace is placed at the center. Conversations took root in informal Peace-First Hubs across Winnipeg, Thompson, Brandon, and Portage la Prairie, with related gatherings in Vancouver and Toronto. Toronto now helps convene national roundtable conversations, linking local dialogue with a broader Canadian exchange. What began as small, local discussions has become more connected — not through expansion or centralization, but through coherence. Across regions, shared themes, tensions, and hopes are emerging. This webpage documents that journey. It gathers reflections, materials, and learning from Hub conversations so others can understand what has been explored and carry it forward. From the beginning, Peace-First was designed as a seed-planting initiative, formally concluding March 31, 2026. Its focus has been to explore how individuals and cultural communities understand inner peace, collective vision, community cohesion, and cultural dignity and visibility. The Hubs are volunteer-led spaces where community connectors and members gather to listen, reflect, and imagine what a peaceful geographic and cultural community might look like in practice. Along the way, we developed background papers, reflection documents, and practical toolkits shaped by lived experience in Manitoba and beyond. This page now serves as a living repository within the Peace-First Library, offering capacity-building tools, framing papers, hub guidance, and shared learning that communities can adapt to their own realities. The purpose is not to centralize authority, but to make learning accessible. Peace-First Hubs are community-led and partner-supported — grounded in relationship, not hierarchy. Supported by ACOMI, ECCM, Palaver Hut, MIA, cultural community members across the country, and allies such as MANSO, Mediation Services, CanU Canada, and PCHS, this work moves through partnership rather than control. This initiative has been made possible through the principal financial support of the Department of Canadian Heritage, with a supportive role played by The Winnipeg Foundation. Their investment has allowed these conversations, materials, and connections to take shape. These materials are not instructions to replicate. They are tools to adapt. This page is more than documentation. It is an invitation. Peace-First is not about imposing a uniform model. It is about strengthening conditions for dialogue, cohesion, and shared responsibility before a crisis. If this resonates, we invite you to explore further, join a national roundtable call, or consider what it would mean to host or support a conversation in your own community. Join a national roundtable call. Complete the survey. The seeds have been planted. What grows next depends on all of us.

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