septembre 17, 2026

Our network update keeps you informed on our network projects and initiatives! Below are a few highlights. Make sure to check out the latest issue below.

In this issue:

• Register now: Putting EDI-A into practice
• National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
• Living Donation Week: Isabelle and Tamara’s story
• Share your experience: CKD diagnosis and disclosure
• Upcoming nephrology events

Register now: Putting EDI-A into practice 

How can research teams move from EDI-A principles to practical action?

On September 24, join Can-SOLVE CKD researcher Keila Turino Miranda and patient partner Javiera Navarrete for a practical conversation about accessibility, communication, patient partnership, representation, and meaningful engagement.

Keila led Can-SOLVE CKD’s network-wide EDI-A audit, helping inform the development of practical tools for more inclusive research. Javiera, a member of Can-SOLVE CKD’s Patient Governance Council and EDI-A Committee, brings both lived and research experience to advancing meaningful inclusion in patient-oriented research.

Together, they will draw on the network’s EDI-A reflection process and A Practical Guide to Inclusive Research to share lessons learned, common challenges, and strategies research teams can consider in their own work. Explore the guide ahead of the webinar.

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: Remembering, learning and taking action 

On September 30, National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we honour Survivors of residential schools, the children who never returned home, and their families and communities.

For more than a century, First Nations, Inuit and Métis children were forcibly removed from their families and communities and placed in residential schools through colonial policies intended to separate them from their cultures, languages and identities. The harms of the residential school system continue to affect Indigenous families and communities today.

As the truths and experiences of residential school Survivors continue to be challenged and denied, listening to Survivors and learning from reliable, Indigenous-led sources remains important. Truth is foundational to reconciliation. This September, we encourage members of our network to learn, reflect and consider our individual and collective responsibilities toward reconciliation.

Resources for learning and reflection, see more…

A sister’s gift: Isabelle and Tamara’s living donation story 

For Living Donation Week, September 13–19, hosted by The Centre for Living Organ Donation at UHN, we’re revisiting the story of sisters Isabelle Flett and Tamara Beardy of Tataskweyak Cree Nation in northern Manitoba. When Isabelle needed a kidney transplant, Tamara became her living donor—giving her sister a second chance and what she calls « a gift of time. »

Their story is a powerful reflection on family, hope and living kidney donation. Read their journey and explore this year’s Living Donation Week events to learn more and take part.