Presentations
FirstU Sunday Forums
Our Sunday Forums were a pre-Service speaker series that covered a wide range including gender based violence, anti-Black racism, the Indian Act, and community housing.
Click HERE to access our Sunday Forums playlist on Youtube.
Our Sunday Forums were a pre-Service speaker series that covered a wide range including gender based violence, anti-Black racism, the Indian Act, and community housing.
Click HERE to access our Sunday Forums playlist on Youtube.
Homegrown Racism and Indefinite Detention
This presentation by Barbara Jackman, Matthew Behrens, Tim McSorley, and Azeezah Kanji, explores security certificate legislation (including C-51, C-59, and more) along with the broader issue of how refugees, Indigenous people, and Black people are increasingly subjected to arbitrary and indefinite detention in Canada based on racial profiling and over-policing.
Click HERE to view the recording.
This presentation by Barbara Jackman, Matthew Behrens, Tim McSorley, and Azeezah Kanji, explores security certificate legislation (including C-51, C-59, and more) along with the broader issue of how refugees, Indigenous people, and Black people are increasingly subjected to arbitrary and indefinite detention in Canada based on racial profiling and over-policing.
Click HERE to view the recording.
Transcripts
Doing More by Doing Less
Martin Settle, Executive Director of USC Canada
January 22, 2017
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USC Canada has a long and commendable history providing assistance on behalf of Unitarians and the Canadian public. In a changing world, USC Canada has always adapted. A bold decision in 2007 -- to do less -- has made the organization stronger and multiplied its impact around the world. Can we learn from these lesson as we move forward in our visioning process at First Unitarian Ottawa?
USC Canada has a long and commendable history providing assistance on behalf of Unitarians and the Canadian public. In a changing world, USC Canada has always adapted. A bold decision in 2007 -- to do less -- has made the organization stronger and multiplied its impact around the world. Can we learn from these lesson as we move forward in our visioning process at First Unitarian Ottawa?
Sunday Service May 8, 2011
Rev. David Pohl
Rev. David Pohl is a Minister Emeritus of First Unitarian. He was minister when the church moved from Elgin Street to Cleary Avenue during the 1960s. When Rev. Pohl visited Ottawa he gave a sermon about our congregation during that time: "So the Wind Won't Blow It Away."
