{"id":1144,"date":"2021-01-01T07:26:48","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T15:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=1144"},"modified":"2021-01-01T20:08:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T04:08:01","slug":"vms-chair-receives-order-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=1144","title":{"rendered":"VMS Chair receives Order of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>John Borrows has been named an Officer of the Order of Canada, &#8220;for his scholarly work on Indigenous rights and legal traditions, which have had a significant impact across Canada and abroad&#8221;.  The Order of Canada is one of our country&#8217;s highest awards, established in 1967 and bestowed annually by the governor general. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gg.ca\/en\/activities\/2020\/governor-general-announces-61-new-appointments-order-canada\" target=\"_blank\">The announcement <\/a>was made December 30th, 2020.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/borrows-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/borrows-1.jpg 250w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/borrows-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>John joined the board of the Victoria Multifaith Society in June 2019 as our board member for Indigenous Spirituality. He is a law professor at the University of Victoria (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uvic.ca\/ncied\/about\/people\/profiles\/borrows-john.php\" target=\"_blank\">profile here<\/a>), where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Borrows has been named an Officer of the Order of Canada, &#8220;for his scholarly work on Indigenous rights and legal traditions, which have had a significant impact across Canada and abroad&#8221;. The Order of Canada is one of our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=1144\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}