By Maggie Macintosh, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Winnipeg Free Press Red River College Polytechnic employees can now take paid time off to mourn a non-blood relative who is akin to family to them. Union and post-secondary leaders celebrated that change, among others that came out of their new, reconciliation-forward approach to contract talks, on Monday. \u201cThere\u2019s a Western view that your family is who you\u2019re related to by blood and that\u2019s all \u2014 and that\u2019s not how it works, at least not in my community,\u201d said Monica Lytwyn, co-chair of RRC Polytech\u2019s truth and reconciliation working group. \u201cYour relatives aren\u2019t always blood relatives and sometimes, your cousin is raised as a sibling or someone who lives next door to you might become like a sibling.\u201d Lytwyn, a member of Norway… <\/p>\n
By Maggie Macintosh, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Winnipeg Free Press Red River College Polytechnic employees can now take paid time off to mourn a non-blood relative who is akin to family to them. Union and post-secondary leaders celebrated that change, among others that came out of their new, reconciliation-forward approach to contract talks, on Monday. \u201cThere\u2019s a Western view that your family is who you\u2019re related to by blood and that\u2019s all \u2014 and that\u2019s not how it works, at least not in my community,\u201d said Monica Lytwyn, co-chair of RRC Polytech\u2019s truth and reconciliation working group. \u201cYour relatives aren\u2019t always blood relatives and sometimes, your cousin is raised as a sibling or someone who lives next door to you might become like a sibling.\u201d Lytwyn, a member of Norway... <\/p>\n