Canada Day 2025
July 2, 2025•213 words
As Canada marks its 158th birthday, this year’s Canada Day celebrations resonate with a renewed and deeper sense of national reflection, unity, and identity. Traditionally a time to embrace shared values like multiculturalism, a strong sense of collectivism, and peace, Canada Day now carries additional weight...
Recent comments from U.S. President Donald Trump, suggesting Canada could become the “51st state,” have sparked widespread rejection across the country, ultimately reinforcing Canadians’ commitment to sovereignty.
But this year’s celebrations also emphasize another vital truth: Canada cannot celebrate its identity without recognizing and honouring the First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples who have inhabited these lands since time immemorial. As Canadians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, gather for fireworks, festivities, and family gatherings, many are also turning inward, acknowledging the painful history of colonization, loss of languages and cultures, residential schools, and systemic injustices.
The journey toward Truth and Reconciliation has become an essential part of Canada’s national narrative, reminding us that understanding and addressing the past is key to shaping a just and inclusive future.
In coming together, Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians alike are asserting that the injustices of the past must never happen again, to anyone. In doing so, all Canadians are helping to build a stronger, more unified, and more compassionate Canada.